This bill mandates the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to facilitate the sharing of student addresses for the administration of the federal Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) program. To ensure compliance with privacy concerns, the Department of Education is required to include a question on all information collection forms, allowing parents to opt-in or opt-out of data sharing. The specific language to be included is: "I would like the department of education to share my address with the department of health and human services only for the purpose of my child/children receiving Summer EBT. Yes ___ No ___". If parents do not respond, it will be interpreted as a denial of data sharing.

Additionally, the bill introduces new provisions that allow the Department of Education to share addresses only for the purpose of administering the Summer EBT program, while ensuring that the data remains confidential and is used solely for this purpose. The departments are required to delete any shared data after the distribution of benefits for the summer period, unless federal law dictates otherwise. The bill does not impose any fiscal impact, as the Department of Health and Human Services already has an existing MOU with the Department of Education regarding the Summer EBT program.

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 189:68
As Amended by the House: 189:68
HB1727 text: 189:68