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California
GI Bill students: personal information sent to the Department of Veterans Affairs only with the student’s informed, written consent
Cal. Education Code section 66014.4
In force since .
A sensitive categories rule binding government bodies.
- Obligation class
- Consent, Disclosure
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- If you are the California State University, transmit to the Department of Veterans Affairs each year the full name, email address, mailing address and mobile telephone number of each student using or intending to use GI Bill educational benefits only where the student has given informed, written consent to the disclosure (section 66014.4(b)).
- Use a template for informed, written consent, developed and administered in compliance with federal and state privacy law including FERPA, that lets a student opt in when applying for financial aid (section 66014.4(d)).
- The University of California is requested, not required, to do the same (section 66014.4(b), (d)(1)).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
What record it asks for
Logging duty
The section conditions a yearly data transfer on a student’s written consent. It names no log, no record to be kept, no retention period and no reader of a record.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Education Code section 66014.4(b) requires the California State University, and requests the University of California, commencing with the 2023–24 academic year and annually after that, to transmit electronically to the Department of Veterans Affairs the full name, email address, mailing address and mobile telephone number of each student whose tuition or fees are paid, or intended to be paid, with GI Bill educational benefits, only if the student has provided informed, written consent to the disclosure.
Section 66014.4(d)(1) required the office of the Chancellor of the California State University, on or before , to develop and post on its website a template for informed, written consent that lets a student applying for financial aid opt in to having the student’s personal information shared with the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Under section 66014.4(d)(2), the consent must be developed and administered in compliance with federal and state laws relating to individual privacy, including the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. Section 66014.4(e) limits the Department of Veterans Affairs to using the information only to provide benefits and support services for veterans, and bars it from using or disclosing the information for any other purpose. The section was added by Statutes 2022, chapter 174 (AB 1633), effective .
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