Bill Text: TX SB1696 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to establishing a system for the sharing of information regarding cyber attacks or other cybersecurity incidents occurring in schools in this state.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/21 [SB1696 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB1696-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 1696 | ||
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| relating to establishing a system for the sharing of information | ||
| regarding cyber attacks or other cybersecurity incidents occurring | ||
| in schools in this state. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. The heading to Section 11.175, Education Code, | ||
| is amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 11.175. SCHOOL [ |
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| SECTION 2. Section 11.175, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsection (e) and adding Subsections (g), (h), and (i) to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (e) A school district or open-enrollment charter school | ||
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| agency or, if applicable, the entity that administers the system | ||
| established under Subsection (g) any cyber attack or other | ||
| cybersecurity incident against the school district's or | ||
| open-enrollment charter school's [ |
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| that constitutes a breach of system security as soon as practicable | ||
| after the discovery of the attack or incident. | ||
| (g) The agency, in coordination with the Department of | ||
| Information Resources, shall establish and maintain a system to | ||
| coordinate the anonymous sharing of information concerning cyber | ||
| attacks or other cybersecurity incidents between participating | ||
| schools and the state. The system must: | ||
| (1) include each report made under Subsection (e); | ||
| (2) provide for reports made under Subsection (e) to | ||
| be shared between participating schools in as close to real time as | ||
| possible; and | ||
| (3) preserve a reporting school's anonymity by | ||
| preventing the disclosure through the system of the name of the | ||
| school at which an attack or incident occurred. | ||
| (h) In establishing the system under Subsection (g), the | ||
| agency may contract with a qualified third party to administer the | ||
| system. | ||
| (i) The commissioner shall adopt rules as necessary to | ||
| implement this section. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1696 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 20, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 28, Nays 3; and that | ||
| the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 29, 2021, by the | ||
| following vote: Yeas 26, Nays 4. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1696 passed the House, with | ||
| amendment, on May 26, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 146, | ||
| Nays 0, one present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
