SF 1118

Introduction - 94th Legislature (2025 - 2026)

Posted on 04/02/2025 08:55 a.m.

A bill for an act
relating to government data practices; prohibiting parent contact information from
being designated as publicly available directory information; amending Minnesota
Statutes 2024, section 13.32, subdivisions 2, 5.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 13.32, subdivision 2, is amended to read:

Subd. 2.

Student health and census data; data on parents.

(a) Health data concerning
students, including but not limited to, data concerning immunizations, notations of special
physical or mental problems and records of school nurses are educational data. Access by
parents to student health data shall be pursuant to section 13.02, subdivision 8.

(b) Pupil census data, including emergency information and family information are
educational data.

(c) Data concerning parents are private data on individuals but may be treated as directory
information if the same procedures that are used by a school district to designate student
data as directory information under subdivision 5 are followed new text begin , except that a parent's home
address, telephone number, email address, or other personal contact information may not
be treated as directory information under this subdivision new text end .

new text begin (d) For the purpose of voter outreach in a school district referendum, during the period
between 90 days prior to the date of the election until the date of the election for which
voters are contacted, an educational agency or institution must, upon request by a committee,
as defined in section 211A.01, subdivision 4a, unless prohibited by a school district policy
applicable to all committees, provide the committee with a parent's address, telephone
number, and email address. A committee may not use or disseminate data collected under
this paragraph for any purpose other than voter outreach in the school district referendum
and must destroy data collected under this paragraph within 15 days following the date of
the election for which the data was collected. A committee is subject to the penalties and
remedies under sections 13.08, 13.085, and 13.09 for a violation of this paragraph.
new text end

Sec. 2.

Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 13.32, subdivision 5, is amended to read:

Subd. 5.

Directory information.

(a) Educational data designated as directory information
is public data on individuals to the extent required under federal law. Directory information
must be designated pursuant to the provisions of:

(1) this subdivision; and

(2) United States Code, title 20, section 1232g, and Code of Federal Regulations, title
34, section 99.37, which were in effect on January 3, 2012.

(b) When conducting the directory information designation and notice process required
by federal law, an educational agency or institution shall give parents and students notice
of the right to refuse to let the agency or institution designate specified data about the student
as directory information. This notice may be given by any means reasonably likely to inform
the parents and students of the right.

(c) An educational agency or institution may not designate a student's new text begin or parent's new text end home
address, telephone number, email address, or other personal contact information as directory
information under this subdivision. This paragraph does not apply to a postsecondary
institution.

(d) When requested, educational agencies or institutions must share personal student new text begin or
parent new text end contact information and directory information, whether public or private, with the
Minnesota Department of Education, as required for federal reporting purposes.

(e) When requested, educational agencies or institutions may share personal student new text begin or
parent new text end contact information and directory information for students served in special education
with postsecondary transition planning and services under section 125A.08, paragraph (b),
clause (1), whether public or private, with the Department of Employment and Economic
Development, as required for coordination of services to students with disabilities under
sections 125A.08, paragraph (b), clause (1); 125A.023; and 125A.027.

Sec. 3. new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE.
new text end

new text begin Sections 1 and 2 are effective the day following final enactment. Beginning upon the
effective date of sections 1 and 2, a parent's personal contact information subject to those
sections must be treated by an educational agency or institution as private data on individuals
regardless of whether that contact information was previously designated as or treated as
directory information under Minnesota Statutes, section 13.32, subdivision 2.
new text end