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Texas student-data protections and school-vendor requirements
Texas student-data statutes layer state duties over FERPA: institutional obligations, restrictions on school vendors' collection and use of student data, and contractual limits on marketing and resale.
Status
- Legal status
- In effect
- Allegation or finding
- Operative law
- Applicability
- Operators as defined by Tex. Educ. Code 32.151: operators of a website, online service, online application, or mobile application with actual knowledge that it is used primarily for a school purpose and was designed and marketed for a school purpose. General-audience services not used primarily for a school purpose fall outside the definition.
- Enforceability
- Binding on parties within scope
- Effective date
- In effect
- Law checked through
- October 12, 2026
- Citation
- Educ. Code ch. 32, subch. D (ยงยง32.151 to 32.157)
- Source
- Tex. Educ. Code ch. 32, subch. D