Bill Text: NJ S1550 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits teaching staff members from inputting information and conversations regarding individually identifiable health information into third party software applications managed by entities engaging in partisan political activity.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-14 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee [S1550 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2022-S1550-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator HOLLY T. SCHEPISI
District 39 (Bergen and Passaic)
SYNOPSIS
Prohibits teaching staff members from inputting information and conversations regarding individually identifiable health information into third party software applications managed by entities engaging in partisan political activity.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning the input of certain information and conversations by teaching staff members into third party software applications and supplementing chapter 36 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. A teaching staff member employed by a board of education shall not input the individually identifiable health information of a student or members of a student's family, or conversations concerning such information, into a third party software application managed by an entity that engages in partisan political activity.
b. For purposes of this section:
"Individually identifiable health information" means any information, including genetic or vaccination information, relating to the past, present, or future physical or mental health or condition of an individual that either identifies the individual or could reasonably be used to identify the individual; and
"Partisan political activity" means campaigning, fundraising, and electioneering on behalf of candidates or political parties.
2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to the first school year next following enactment.
STATEMENT
This bill prohibits a teaching staff member employed by a board of education from inputting the individually identifiable health information of a student or members of a student's family, or conversations concerning such information, into a third party software application managed by an entity that engages in partisan political activity. The bill defines "individually identifiable health information" as any information, including genetic or vaccination information, relating to the past, present, or future physical or mental health or condition of an individual that either identifies the individual or could reasonably be used to identify the individual. The bill also defines "partisan political activity" as campaigning, fundraising, and electioneering on behalf of candidates or political parties.
