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Arkansas — Student Data Vendor Security Act (Act 754 of 2023)

The Student Data Vendor Security Act, Act 754 of the 2023 Regular Session (HB 1757), approved 12 April 2023 and "effective on and after June 1, 2024" (Section 2). It sets duties for each local education agency (express privacy and security terms in every contract that shares student data, published lists of providers) and for each school service contract provider (transparency, use limits, a comprehensive security programme, destruction). Providers used under standard, non-negotiable terms ("on-demand providers") are covered more lightly. The act numbered its sections 6-18-2501 to 6-18-2508; they are codified as Ark. Code Ann. §§6-18-2601 to 6-18-2608. The text here is the enrolled act (see Meta).

Applicability to EdTech

Contents

Document Covers
ACT-754-2023.md Act 754 of 2023, Sections 1 (the new subchapter, §§6-18-2501 to 6-18-2508 as enacted) and 2 (effective date), as enrolled

Key obligations at a glance

Enforcement

The act sets no penalty. Its sanction is contractual: a material breach involving misuse or unauthorised release leads the district to decide whether to terminate (§6-18-2504(b)(2)(B)), and a provider that refuses the terms or has substantially failed to comply cannot be contracted with or renewed (§6-18-2504(b)(3)).

Licence

The corpus reproduces Act 754 of 2023 verbatim from the enrolled act published by the Arkansas General Assembly at arkleg.state.ar.us (read 2026-10-08). The PDF carries no copyright notice (checked in full).

Statute text enacted by a state legislature is outside copyright under the government edicts doctrine. In Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc., 590 U.S. 255 (2020) (slip opinion, read 2026-10-01), the Supreme Court held: "Under what has been dubbed the government edicts doctrine, officials empowered to speak with the force of law cannot be the authors of—and therefore cannot copyright—the works they create in the course of their official duties." It applied the doctrine to an arm of the legislature as well as to legislators: "Because Georgia’s annotations are authored by an arm of the legislature in the course of its legislative duties, the government edicts doctrine puts them outside the reach of copyright protection."

Conditions: none attach to the act's text. The corpus nonetheless names the official source in its Sources section and in each fact document's {.meta} provenance lines, and its Meta section describes what it changed (margin line numbers and page furniture dropped, line-break hyphenation rejoined, anchors added, nothing reworded).

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