Bill Text: TX SB788 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
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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: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)
Status: (Passed) 2021-05-24 - Effective on 9/1/21 [SB788 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB788-Comm_Sub.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: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)
Status: (Passed) 2021-05-24 - Effective on 9/1/21 [SB788 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB788-Comm_Sub.html
By: Creighton, et al. | S.B. No. 788 | |
(Howard) | ||
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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. | ||
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. The agency, the | ||
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, and the Texas Workforce | ||
Commission jointly shall develop and make available the following | ||
model data-sharing agreements for sharing information subject to | ||
the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (20 U.S.C. | ||
Section 1232g) for purposes of system evaluation and improved | ||
support of students and workforce preparation participants: | ||
(1) a model data-sharing agreement for public schools | ||
and public and private institutions of higher education to share | ||
that information with entities authorized to receive that | ||
information for use in ongoing system evaluation and improvement | ||
purposes or whose employees or contractors are school officials for | ||
purposes of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974; | ||
and | ||
(2) a model data-sharing agreement for reciprocal | ||
sharing of that information between: | ||
(A) public schools; | ||
(B) public or private institutions of higher | ||
education; | ||
(C) state and local workforce entities; and | ||
(D) entities authorized to receive that | ||
information for use in ongoing system evaluation and improvement | ||
purposes or whose employees or contractors are school officials for | ||
purposes of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |