By: Creighton, Powell  S.B. No. 788
         (In the Senate - Filed February 24, 2021; March 11, 2021,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Higher Education;
  March 29, 2021, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
  Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; March 29, 2021,
  sent to printer.)
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  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 788 By:  Springer
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  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.
 
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