1.1 A bill for an act
1.2 relating to government data practices; adding certain restrictions on public data
1.3 requests to a school district; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 13.03, by
1.4 adding a subdivision.
1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.6 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 13.03, is amended by adding a subdivision
1.7to read:
1.8 Subd. 3a.Data requests to school districts.(a) For purposes of this subdivision, "school
1.9district" means an independent or special school district, as defined in section 120A.05.
1.10 (b) The provisions in this subdivision apply to a request made to a school district to
1.11inspect or receive copies of public government data pursuant to subdivision 3. The provisions
1.12in this subdivision are in addition to those contained in subdivision 3, except that when the
1.13provisions of this subdivision conflict with those of subdivision 3, this subdivision prevails.
1.14This subdivision does not apply to a request made by a data subject under section 13.04.
1.15 (c) A person may not request public data from a school district anonymously. The
1.16requesting person must provide the school district's responsible authority or designee with
1.17the identification credentials required by the responsible authority.
1.18 (d) In addition to any other fees or charges allowable under this chapter, if a requesting
1.19person fails to appear to inspect the requested data, the responsible authority may require
1.20the requesting person to pay the costs authorized to be charged under subdivision 3, paragraph
1.21(c), plus the cost of employee time spent separating public from not public data.
1Section 1.
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State of Minnesota
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
H. F. No. 1999
NINETY-FOURTH SESSION
Authored by Greene, Jordan, Falconer, Bahner, Virnig and others03/06/2025
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary Finance and Civil Law 2.1 EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment and
2.2applies to data requests made on or after that date.
2Section 1.
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