Virginia House Bill 1840

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 6 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-01-06 - Committee Referral Pending
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Department of Education; school boards; student online activity; data collection, monitoring, and restrictions. Requires the Department of Education to establish reporting expectations for school divisions that collect student online activity data and provides that if no school within a school division does so, the school board, upon submission of written documentation to the Department stating that no school within the school division collects student online activity data, shall be deemed to have satisfied such reporting expectations. The reporting expectations include: (i) making certain disclosures to parents, including what online activity is being tracked, monitored, and collected when using school devices on school property and what types of student online activity or online activity data would create an alert; (ii) including in the school division's acceptable use policy for the Internet that student online activity is being tracked and data collected; (iii) providing, to the extent available for the school division, parents the ability to access any collected student online activity data; (iv) notifying the parent of a student for whom an alert is created or an action taken on such student's online activity or associated data before the student is notified, except as provided in the bill; (v) prohibiting the inclusion of student online activity data in a student's permanent record except in the most severe cases, as defined, set forth, and made publicly available by the Department. The bill requires the Department to create and distribute to each school board (a) a template for making the required parental disclosures and (b) best practices for deleting student online activity data.

Department of Education; school boards; student online activity; data collection, monitoring, and restrictions.

Del. Delores Oates [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-01-06	House	Committee Referral Pending
2025-01-06	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25100862D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1840
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1840/text/HB1840