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Senate Bill 378, Student Data Privacy and Protection Act, inspection, correction and expungement of educational records
Pa. S.B. 378, sec. 526 (PN 1528)
In committee, dated , as of .
A data subject rights rule binding public and private bodies.
Where it has got to
The text described here is Printer's Number 1528, as amended in the Senate Education Committee. That print is PN 1528, published .
Locally, this stage is reported as amended from the Senate Education Committee, first consideration, laid on the table.
The stage above is recorded at www.palegis.us.
Referred to the Senate Education Committee on (Printer's No. 240). Reported as amended (Printer's No. 1528) and given first consideration on . Laid on the table pursuant to Senate Rule 9 on . No later action recorded. The 2025-2026 session runs through .
What it requires
- Senate Bill 378 (Printer's No. 1528) is a pending bill and does not currently bind anyone; the lines below describe what it would ask if enacted in that form.
- If you are an educational entity or a third party that maintains a student's data, provide the data to a requesting student, or to the parent or guardian of a student under 18, in a timely manner and in electronic form unless it is not kept electronically or cannot reasonably be made available (proposed section 526(a) and (b)).
- If you receive a request to correct inaccurate or incomplete student data, or to expunge information about an unsubstantiated accusation or an adjudicated matter in which the student was found not at fault or not guilty, make the changes and confirm them to the requester within 90 days (proposed section 526(c)).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
What this law does
As reported from the Senate Education Committee (Printer's No. 1528), Senate Bill 378 would let a student, or a parent or guardian of a student under 18, request inspection of the student's data held by an educational entity or a third party, request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information, and request expungement of information about an unsubstantiated accusation or an adjudicated matter in which the student was found not at fault or not guilty.
The educational entity or third party would make the changes and confirm them within 90 days of the request. Under section 542, public money could not be made available under an applicable program to an educational entity that has a policy that denies or effectively prevents a student, or the parent or guardian of a student under 18, the right to inspect, review or correct the student's record.
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