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2000 SESSION
HB 536 Transfer of scholastic records.
Introduced by: Robert Tata | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles | history
SUMMARY AS PASSED:
Transfer of scholastic records. Conforms current law to the requirements of the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) by directing schools to annually notify parents of students currently enrolled and in attendance of their rights under FERPA and related regulations. In addition, a school responding to a request for the transfer of a student's scholastic record from another school division need not provide written notice of the transfer, to the parent or to a student who is 18 years of age or older, if the school has previously included in this annual notice a statement that it forwards such records to such requesting school divisions.
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Transfer of scholastic records. Conforms current law to the requirements of the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) (20 U.S.C. § 1232(g)) by directing schools to annually notify parents of students currently enrolled and in attendance of their rights under FERPA and related regulations. In addition, a school responding to a request for the transfer of a student's scholastic record from another school division need not provide written notice of the transfer, to the parent or to a student who is eighteen years of age or older, if the school has previously included in this annual notice a statement that it forwards such records to such requesting school divisions.