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Pennsylvania
Department of Education data sharing with the Performance-based Funding Council and the State Board of Higher Education: confidentiality terms for student data
24 P.S. § 20-2033-L(e) (Act 47 of 2025)
In force since .
A sensitive categories rule binding government bodies.
- Obligation class
- Governance, Disclosure
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- If you are the Department of Education, share the data collected from public institutions of higher education under section 2033-L with the Performance-based Funding Council (section 2033-L(e)(2)).
- Enter into a data use agreement with the Performance-based Funding Council whose terms ensure that the confidential data you share is kept confidential and secure and remains confidential in accordance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 and other applicable laws governing data sharing (section 2033-L(e)(3)(i)).
- Before sharing data with the State Board of Higher Education, enter into a data use agreement with the board that includes the same terms (section 2033-L(e)(3)(ii)).
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What record it asks for
Logging duty
Section 2033-L(e) requires data use agreements for confidential data the Department shares. It names no log, no retention period and no reader of a record.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Section 2033-L(e) of the Public School Code of 1949 provides that the department shall share data collected under the section with the council. The department must enter into a data use agreement with the council that includes terms to ensure that the data is kept confidential and secure and remains confidential in accordance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 and other applicable laws governing data sharing.
The department must enter into a data use agreement with the board before sharing data with it, and the agreement must include the same terms. The department may use a disclosure method to protect student privacy to prevent the identification of students. Section 72(4) of Act 47 of 2025 provides that the remainder of the act takes effect immediately, and the act was approved on .
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