ONE HUNDRED NINTH LEGISLATURE - FIRST SESSION - 2025
COMMITTEE STATEMENT
LB31
Hearing Date: Tuesday February 04, 2025
Committee On: Education
Introducer: Conrad
One Liner: Require school policies relating to the use of student surveillance, monitoring, and tracking
technology by school districts
Roll Call Vote - Final Committee Action:
Advanced to General File
Vote Results:
Aye: 7 Senators Conrad, Hughes, Hunt, Lonowski, Meyer, Murman, Sanders
Nay:
Absent: 1 Senator Juarez
Present Not Voting:
Testimony:
Proponents: Representing:
Senator Danielle Conrad Opening Presenter
Sue Greenwald Nebraska Education Coalition
Steve Davies Self
Kathy Faucher Self
Colby Woodson Self
Opponents: Representing:
Kyle McGowan NE Council of School Administrators, Schools Taking
Action for Nebraska Children's Education, Greater
Nebraska Schools Association, Nebraska Rural
Community Schools Association, Nebraska State
Education Association
Kirk Langer Lincoln Public Schools, Nebraska Association of
Technology Administrators
Neutral: Representing:
* ADA Accommodation Written Testimony
Summary of purpose and/or changes:
LB 31 mandates that the State Board of Education create and distribute a model policy for the use of student
surveillance, monitoring, and tracking technology by school districts by December 1, 2025, at the latest. The policy
must, at a minimum, include provisions for identifying and inventorying all such tools, detailing the companies or
entities that provide them, and disclosing the costs of purchasing and maintaining them. It should also describe each
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students out. Furthermore, the policy must explain how data may be shared with law enforcement or used in student
discipline, ensure accommodations for students with disabilities or IEPs, and outline the handling of biometric or
personally identifiable information. Finally, the policy should specify remedies for privacy violations, referencing
relevant laws such as the Consumer Protection Act.
Starting May 1, 2026, each school board must adopt a written policy, to be implemented at the start of the 2026-27
school year, outlining standards and guidelines for the purchase and use of mass surveillance tools. Each policy must
meet the minimum standards set by the State Board of Education.
Dave Murman, Chairperson
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