20 U.S.C. § 1015c — Database of student information prohibited

submitted 18 years ago by Pub. L. 89-329 to r/title-20-EDUCATION · 185 words · no verdicts yet

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This chapter does not authorize a federal database that tracks personally identifiable student information, except for a qualifying system already in use before August 14, 2008. States may create their own such databases.

(a) Prohibition. Except as subsection (b) allows, nothing in this chapter authorizes developing, operating, or maintaining a federal database of personally identifiable information about people receiving assistance, attending assisted institutions, or involved in the chapter’s studies or data collections. This includes a student unit-record system, education bar-code system, or other system tracking individual students over time. (b) Exception. The prohibition does not apply to a system, or successor, that is needed to operate programs under subchapter II, IV, or VII and that the Secretary, directly or through a contractor, was using on August 13, 2008. (c) State databases. This chapter does not prohibit a State or group of States from creating, operating, or maintaining State databases tracking people over time, including student-record systems with enrollment, attendance, graduation and retention, financial aid, and graduate-employment information.

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(a) Prohibition

Except as described in subsection (b), nothing in this chapter shall be construed to authorize the development, implementation, or maintenance of a Federal database of personally identifiable information on individuals receiving assistance under this chapter, attending institutions receiving assistance under this chapter, or otherwise involved in any studies or other collections of data under this chapter, including a student unit record system, an education bar code system, or any other system that tracks individual students over time.

(b) Exception

The provisions of subsection (a) shall not apply to a system (or a successor system) that—

(1)

is necessary for the operation of programs authorized by subchapter II, IV, or VII; and

(2)

was in use by the Secretary, directly or through a contractor, as of the day before August 14, 2008.

Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit a State or a consortium of States from developing, implementing, or maintaining State-developed databases that track individuals over time, including student unit record systems that contain information related to enrollment, attendance, graduation and retention rates, student financial assistance, and graduate employment outcomes.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 89–329, title I, § 134, as added Pub. L. 110–315, title I, § 113, Aug. 14, 2008, 122 Stat. 3110.)

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2008Enacted · Pub. L. 89-329 · 122 Stat. 3110

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