HF 2546 — A bill for an act modifying the duties of the department of education related to electronic systems, and including effective date provisions.

House File 2546 - IntroducedReprinted HOUSE FILE 2546 BY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION (SUCCESSOR TO HF 2124) (As Amended and Passed by the House March 2, 2026) A BILL FOR An Act modifying the duties of the department of education related to electronic systems.systems, and including effective date provisions.

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2546 DIVISION I PROCUREMENT OF A STATEWIDE DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM Section 1.

TheAs soon as is reasonably possible after the effective date of this division of this Act, the director shall procure the comprehensive, statewide data collection system using a process that requires the issuance of requests for proposal.

(b) The department and the developer of the data collection system software must allow a school district, accredited nonpublic school, or area education agency to purchase a student information system from the developer of the school district’s,HF accredited2546 nonpublic(3) school’s,91 or-1- areajda/jh/md education1/4 agency’sH.F. choice that maintains a shared database architecture with the data collection system;

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2546provided, however, that use of the data collection system shall not require or depend upon the purchase of any specific student information system.

(a) School and classroom attendance records.

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2546(9) Collects and distributes only the data required under federal and state law and the minimum amount of data necessary to enroll and serve new students from another school or educational institution.

EFFECTIVE DATE.

This division of this Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.

DIVISION II MODERNIZATION OF ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS Sec.

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EXPLANATIONHF the2546 explanation’s(3) substance91 by-4- thejda/jh/md members4/4 of the general assembly.h This bill modifies the duties of the department of education (DE) related to electronic systems.

The bill requires the director of DE to approve, coordinate, and supervise the use of electronic data and information processing by school districts, area education agencies, and merged areas, including the procurement of a comprehensive, statewide data collection system that must facilitate data collection between the student information systems of all school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, and area education agencies.

The director of the department of education is required to procure the comprehensive, statewide data collection system using a process that requires the issuance of requests for proposal.

The bill establishes requirements that the data collection system must satisfy.

The bill requires that DE modernize its electronic systems and procedures in order to ensure the proper disbursement of moneys in a timely manner and to ensure that DE’s systems are able to communicate with other state agencies, and with school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, charter schools, and innovation zone schools.

The modernization must include the deployment of a portal, on or before July 1, 2027, which LSB 5619HV (2) 91 -4- jda/jh 4/5 H.F.

2546 satisfies requirements established in the bill.

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