(1) "Advisory board" means the government data advisory board created in section 24-37.5-703.

(2) "Chief information officer" means the head of the office of information technology appointed pursuant to section 24-37.5-103.

(3) "Data" means the representation of facts as texts, numbers, graphics, images, sounds, or video. Facts are captured, stored, and expressed as data.

(3.5) "Education data subcommittee" means the subcommittee of the advisory board created in section 24-37.5-703.5 to provide policies and protocols regarding sharing education data among local and state education providers.

(4) "Interdepartmental data protocol" means file sharing and governance policies, processes, and procedures that permit the merging of data for the purposes of policy analysis and determination of program effectiveness.

(5) "Personal identifying information" means a person's first name or first initial and last name in combination with his or her social security number or driver's license number or identification card number.

(6) "Political subdivision" means a municipality, county, city and county, town, or school district in this state.

(7) "State agency" means each principal department within the executive branch, including each board, division, unit, office, or other subdivision within each department, each office or agency within the governor's office, each state-supported institution of higher education, and each local district college; except that "state agency" shall not include any department, agency, board, division, unit, office, or other subdivision of a department that does not collect unit records.