Amend SB 1367, in SECTION 2 of the bill (House Committee
Printing, page 1, between lines 20-21), by adding Subsections
(c)-(f) to added Section 323.019, Government Code, to read as
follows:
(c) In order to develop and evaluate legislative policy, the
council is entitled to collect data from any state agency,
including data that is confidential under state or federal law. In
addition to other uses consistent with this section, the council
may use data collected for the purpose of matching data from
various agencies. Confidential data collected by the council does
not lose its character as confidential information because of its
collection by the council, and the providing of that data to the
council does not constitute a release of the information by the
state agency. For the limited purpose of collecting and matching
data subject to 20 U.S.C. Section 1232g or other federal law
governing education records, employees of the council are
considered state school officials.
(d) The council is subject to any federal law governing the
release of or providing access to any personally identifiable
information to the same extent as the agency from which the data is
collected. The council may not release or distribute the data to
any individual member of the legislature, or to any other person,
in a form that contains personally identifiable information.
(e) In collecting personally identifiable information under
this section, the council and the state agency from which the data
is collected shall cooperate in the confidential handling of the
data, such as the encoding, decoding, and reencoding of the
information. Personally identifiable information may be used by
the council solely for the purpose of statistical and policy
analysis, including data matching, and must be destroyed
immediately when no longer needed for that analysis.
(f) Using information collected and matched under this
section, the council may produce and release statistical data that
does not include any personally identifiable information.