Section 2-221.2 - Data collection reduction.-(a) The state board, in consultation with the advisory committee, shall:(1) Review data collection requirements existing as of the effective date of this section that are imposed on public school entities in the areas of finance, human resources, food services, transportation, child accounting, athletics, health and special education. In the review, the advisory committee shall also consider whether the data has a valuable purpose to inform policymakers and the public about the operation of public school entities.(2) Identify those data collection requirements that are redundant, overly burdensome or no longer necessary.(3) Within one hundred eighty (180) days of the effective date of this section, issue a report of its findings and recommendations based on the data collection requirements identified under paragraph (2) to the chairman and minority chairman of the education committee of the senate and the chairman and minority chairman of the education committee of the house of representatives and post the report on the department's publicly accessible internet website.(b)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, by the conclusion of the school year following the issuance of the report required under subsection (a)(3), the department shall terminate all data collection requirements imposed on public school entities identified under subsection (a)(2) that are not required by statute or regulation.(2) Once a data collection requirement has been terminated under this section, the department may not resume the collection of any data subject to the terminated data collection requirement.(c)(1) Within thirty (30) days of the effective date of this section, the state board shall establish an advisory committee consisting of:(i) The secretary of education or a designee.(ii) The chairman and minority chairman of the education committee of the senate or their designees.(iii) The chairman and minority chairman of the education committee of the house of representatives or their designees.(iv) The following members, to be appointed by the state board in consultation with education associations representing school districts, intermediate units, public school employes, charter school entities and area career and technical schools: (A) Two school district business managers.(B) Two intermediate unit business managers.(C) Two charter school entity business managers.(D) Two area career and technical school business managers.(E) One representative from a school district board of school directors.(F) One representative from an intermediate unit board of directors.(G) One representative from a charter school entity board of trustees.(H) One representative from an area career and technical school joint operating committee.(I) One member of a statewide association representing public school entity employes that has a membership on the effective date of this section of greater than 140,000 public school entity employes.(2) The advisory committee shall hold its first meeting within forty-five (45) days of the effective date of this section.(3) The state board shall provide administrative support, meeting space and any other assistance required by the advisory committee to carry out its duties under this section.(d) For all new public school entity data collection requirements instituted after the effective date of this section that are not the result of legislation enacted by the general assembly, the department shall provide the following information to all public school entities and to the general assembly sixty (60) days prior to the first deadline for any new data collection requirement:(1) A justification for the data collection, including a statement indicating why the data collection is necessary for the proper performance of the department's functions;(2) An explanation of how the department will use the data collected;(3) An explanation of how the department will share the data with public school entities;(4) A statement affirming that the data collection will not impose any unjustified costs on public school entities or require duplication of existing data collection requirements; And(e) Any data collection requirement imposed by the federal government shall not be subject to this section.(f) For purposes of this section: (1) "Advisory committee" shall mean the advisory committee established under subsection (c).(2) "Charter school entity" shall mean a charter school, regional charter school or cyber charter school as defined in section 1703-A.(3) "Department" shall mean the department of education of the commonwealth.(4) "Public school entity" shall mean any of the following:(i) An area career and technical school.(iii) A charter school entity.(iv) An intermediate unit.(5) "State board" shall mean the state board of education. Amended by P.L. TBD 2019 No. 76, § 5, eff. 12/30/2019.Added by P.L. 716 2016 No. 86, § 1, eff. 7/13/2016.