Serves schools or universities, in Texas

Tex. Educ. Code sec. 31.028(b) · Read the law's page

• If you publish instructional material that the State Board of Education has adopted for use in Texas public schools, give the Texas Education Agency, on the commissioner's request, computerized instructional material files for the production of Braille instructional materials or other versions of the material for students with disabilities (Tex. Educ. Code sec. 31.028(b)).
• Arrange those computerized files in one of the optional formats the commissioner specifies (Tex. Educ. Code sec. 31.028(b)).

Tex. Educ. Code secs. 32.151 to 32.157 · Read the law's page

• If you operate a website, online service, online application or mobile application that you know is used primarily for a school purpose and was designed and marketed for one, do not knowingly engage in targeted advertising on any service based on information you acquired through that school use (Tex. Educ. Code sec. 32.152(a)(1)).
• Do not use information created or gathered by your service to create a profile about a student unless the profile is created for a school purpose (Tex. Educ. Code sec. 32.152(a)(2)).
• Do not sell or rent any student's covered information, except as section 32.152(c) provides (Tex. Educ. Code sec. 32.152(a)(3)).
• If you disclose covered information to a third party that provides a service for a school purpose on your behalf, contract with the third party to prohibit any other use of the information and require it to implement and maintain reasonable procedures designed to prevent disclosure (Tex. Educ. Code sec. 32.153(d)).
• Implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices designed to protect covered information from unauthorized access, deletion, use, modification or disclosure (Tex. Educ. Code sec. 32.155(a)).
• If a school district requests deletion of a student's covered information under its control, delete it not later than the 60th day after the request, or as the contract or terms of service specify, unless the student or parent consents to your maintaining it (Tex. Educ. Code sec. 32.156).

Tex. Educ. Code sec. 32.155(b) to (f) · Read the law's page

• If you operate a website, online service, online application or mobile application used primarily for a school purpose, the agency has approved it or adopted your product, and you possess covered information, use the unique identifier established by the Texas Student Data System (TSDS), or a successor system the agency maintains, for any account creation, data upload, data transmission, analysis or reporting, to mask all personally identifiable student information (Tex. Educ. Code sec. 32.155(b)).
• Adhere to the state-required student data sharing agreement, which includes the unique identifier standard the agency prescribes for all operators (Tex. Educ. Code sec. 32.155(b)).
• A school district, open-enrollment charter school, regional education service center or other local education agency that contracts directly with you may require you to adhere to that agreement; you may agree to the additional data fields it requests but may not require that additional data fields be included (Tex. Educ. Code sec. 32.155(d) and (e)).
• A national assessment provider that receives covered information solely to provide access to employment, educational scholarships, financial aid or postsecondary educational opportunities, or to educational resources for middle school, junior high school or high school students, need not comply with the identifier and agreement duties (Tex. Educ. Code sec. 32.155(f)).

Tex. Educ. Code sec. 26.009 · Read the law's page

• If you are an employee or contractor of a school district, obtain the written consent of a child's parent, signed by the parent and returned to the district, before you conduct a psychological or psychiatric examination, test or treatment of the child, unless section 38.004 or state or federal special education law requires it ; an examination or test includes any method designed to elicit information about an attitude, habit, trait, opinion, belief, feeling or mental disorder, including one presented as a survey, check-in or screening or embedded in an academic lesson, but consent is not needed to ask the child verbally about the child's general well-being (Tex. Educ. Code sec. 26.009(a)(1), (a-1)(2), (a-2) and (f)(1)).
• Obtain that consent before you make or authorize a videotape of a child or record or authorize the recording of a child's voice, except where the recording is used only for safety in common areas of the school or on school buses, a cocurricular or extracurricular activity, regular classroom instruction, media coverage of the school, or the safety of students in special education classrooms (Tex. Educ. Code sec. 26.009(a)(2) and (b)).
• Unless other law authorizes it, obtain that consent before you collect, use, store, or disclose to anyone other than the parent a child's biometric identifier (a blood, hair, skin or DNA sample, body scan, retina or iris scan, fingerprint, voiceprint, or record of hand or face geometry), and before you disclose a child's health or medical information to anyone other than the parent (Tex. Educ. Code sec. 26.009(a)(3) and (a-1)(1)).
• A child may not take part in the activity until the district has the parent's signed written consent (Tex. Educ. Code sec. 26.009(a-2)).
• If you are a school district, give the parent of each enrolled student, before the first instructional day of each school year, a written notice of any actions the district may take involving the authorized collection, use or storage of information described in subsection (a)(3) (a child's health or medical information or biometric identifiers), with a plain language explanation and the district's legal authority, to be signed by the parent and returned to the district (Tex. Educ. Code sec. 26.009(c)).
• If you are a school district, retain the written informed consent as part of the child's education records (Tex. Educ. Code sec. 26.009(e)).