                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PUBLIC ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS AND LOCAL SCHOOL DIVISIONS; INFORMATION
AND FORMS (§ 22.1-17.6)

A. The Board shall adopt policies to ensure that the Department does not require
public elementary or secondary schools or local school divisions to (i) provide
information that is already available to or housed within the Department; (ii)
provide the same written information more than once during a school year, absent
a change in the underlying information; (iii) complete forms for students with
disabilities unless such forms are necessary to ensure compliance with the
federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. &#xA7; 1431 et
seq.); or (iv) provide information that is not necessary to comply with state or
federal law unless such information is relevant to student outcomes or the
efficient operation of the public schools, provided that the Department may
require such schools and local school divisions to provide any such information
or complete any such forms if the Department demonstrates a compelling need or
demonstrates that it does not have a more expeditious method for obtaining the
information or completing the forms.

B. The Department shall annually evaluate and determine the continued need for
the information that it collects from public elementary and secondary schools
and local school divisions. In making such evaluation and determination, the
Department shall consider whether the information that it collects is required
by state or federal law.

C. The Board shall report to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Education
and the Senate Committee on Education and Health by November 15 of each year on
(i) information that public elementary and secondary schools and local school
divisions are required to provide to the Department pursuant to state law, (ii)
the results of the annual evaluation and determination made by the Department
pursuant to subsection B, (iii) any reports required of public elementary or
secondary schools or local school divisions that the Department has
consolidated, (iv) any information that the Department no longer collects from
public elementary or secondary schools or local school divisions, and (v) any
forms that the Department no longer requires public elementary or secondary
schools or local school divisions to complete.

HISTORY: 2016, c. 521; 2022, c. 355.