North Dakota 2025 2025-2026 Regular Session

North Dakota House Bill HB1542 Amended / Bill

Filed 04/10/2025

                    25.0951.04000
Sixty-ninth
Legislative Assembly
of North Dakota
Introduced by
Representatives Hendrix, Heilman, Heinert, Marschall, Murphy, Novak, Schreiber-Beck
Senators Cory, Wobbema
A BILL for an Act to create and enact a new section to chapter 44-04 of the North Dakota 
Century Code, relating to designating student applications for admission to an institution of 
higher education as exempt records; and to declare an emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA:
SECTION 1. A new section to chapter 44-04 of the North Dakota Century Code is created 
and enacted as follows:
Admissions applications to institutions of higher education -  	Exempt. 
A record related to an individual's application for admission to an institution of higher 
education under the administration of the state board of higher education is  	exempt, except as  
otherwise provided by law.  	Subject to the  retention requirements under section 15 	- 10 - 44, the 
record  must be destroyed upon request of the applicant or the parent or guardian of an  
applicant who was under eighteen years of age at the time the application was submitted. An 
individual may not  	access or disclose an exempt record  	under this section for a reason other  
than carrying out regular duties as an employee of an institution of higher education, except as 
otherwise provided under this chapter.
SECTION 2. EMERGENCY. This Act is declared to be an emergency measure.
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