Bill Text: TX HB4096 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the development of model data-sharing agreements for sharing certain student information between public schools, public and private institutions of higher education, and other entities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-05-11 - Returned to Local & Consent Calendars Comm. [HB4096 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB4096-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the development of model data-sharing agreements for sharing certain student information between public schools, public and private institutions of higher education, and other entities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-05-11 - Returned to Local & Consent Calendars Comm. [HB4096 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB4096-Introduced.html
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By: Howard | H.B. No. 4096 |
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relating to the development of a model data-sharing agreement for | ||
sharing student information between public schools, public and | ||
private postsecondary educational institutions, and certain | ||
community organizations. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 7, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 7.012 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 7.012. MODEL DATA-SHARING AGREEMENTS. (a) The agency | ||
and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board jointly shall | ||
develop and make available a model data-sharing agreement that may | ||
be used for sharing student information between public schools, | ||
public and private postsecondary educational institutions, and | ||
community organizations that support students pursuing higher | ||
education. To receive student information under this section a | ||
community organization must be approved for receipt of the | ||
information by the agency or the Texas Higher Education | ||
Coordinating Board. | ||
(b) The model data-sharing agreement must: | ||
(1) comply with: | ||
(A) federal law regarding the confidentiality of | ||
student information, including the Family Educational Rights and | ||
Privacy Act of 1974 (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g); and | ||
(B) any state law relating to the privacy of | ||
student information; and | ||
(2) protect the confidentiality of student | ||
information shared under the data-sharing agreement. | ||
SECTION 2. The Texas Education Agency and the Texas Higher | ||
Education Coordinating Board shall develop and make available the | ||
model agreement required by Section 7.012, Education Code, as added | ||
by this Act, for use beginning with the 2021-2022 school year. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |