1.1 A bill for an act
1.2 relating to government data practices; prohibiting parent contact information from
1.3 being designated as publicly available directory information; amending Minnesota
1.4 Statutes 2024, section 13.32, subdivisions 2, 5.
1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.6 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 13.32, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
1.7 Subd. 2.Student health and census data; data on parents.(a) Health data concerning
1.8students, including but not limited to, data concerning immunizations, notations of special
1.9physical or mental problems and records of school nurses are educational data. Access by
1.10parents to student health data shall be pursuant to section 13.02, subdivision 8.
1.11 (b) Pupil census data, including emergency information and family information are
1.12educational data.
1.13 (c) Data concerning parents are private data on individuals but may be treated as directory
1.14information if the same procedures that are used by a school district to designate student
1.15data as directory information under subdivision 5 are followed.
1.16 Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 13.32, subdivision 5, is amended to read:
1.17 Subd. 5.Directory information; data on parents.(a) Educational data designated as
1.18directory information is public data on individuals to the extent required under federal law.
1.19Directory information must be designated pursuant to the provisions of:
1.20 (1) this subdivision; and
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
H. F. No. 101
NINETY-FOURTH SESSION
Authored by Feist, Sencer-Mura, Curran, Virnig and Gottfried02/10/2025
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary Finance and Civil Law
Adoption of Report: Amended and re-referred to the Committee on Education Policy03/17/2025
Adoption of Report: Placed on the General Register as Amended04/02/2025
Read for the Second Time 2.1 (2) United States Code, title 20, section 1232g, and Code of Federal Regulations, title
2.234, section 99.37, which were in effect on January 3, 2012.
2.3 (b) When conducting the directory information designation and notice process required
2.4by federal law, an educational agency or institution shall give parents and students notice
2.5of the right to refuse to let the agency or institution designate specified data about the student
2.6as directory information. This notice may be given by any means reasonably likely to inform
2.7the parents and students of the right.
2.8 (c) An educational agency or institution may not designate a student's or parent's home
2.9address, telephone number, email address, or other personal contact information as directory
2.10information under this subdivision. This paragraph does not apply to a postsecondary
2.11institution.
2.12 (d) When requested, educational agencies or institutions must share personal student or
2.13parent contact information and directory information, whether public or private, with the
2.14Minnesota Department of Education, as required for federal reporting purposes.
2.15 (e) When requested, educational agencies or institutions may share personal student or
2.16parent contact information and directory information for students served in special education
2.17with postsecondary transition planning and services under section 125A.08, paragraph (b),
2.18clause (1), whether public or private, with the Department of Employment and Economic
2.19Development, as required for coordination of services to students with disabilities under
2.20sections 125A.08, paragraph (b), clause (1); 125A.023; and 125A.027.
2.21 (f) Data concerning parents is private data on individuals but may be treated as directory
2.22information if the same procedures that are used by a school district to designate student
2.23data as directory information under this subdivision are followed, except that a parent's
2.24home address, telephone number, email address, or other personal contact information may
2.25not be treated as directory information under this subdivision.
2.26 Sec. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.
2.27 Sections 1 and 2 are effective the day following final enactment. Beginning upon the
2.28effective date of sections 1 and 2, a parent's personal contact information subject to those
2.29sections must be treated by an educational agency or institution as private data on individuals
2.30regardless of whether that contact information was previously designated as or treated as
2.31directory information under Minnesota Statutes, section 13.32, subdivision 2.
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