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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1573 
To establish a process to furnish to State educational agencies certain 
demographic data regarding members of the Armed Forces. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 25, 2025 
Ms. LEE
of Nevada (for herself, Mr. SCHMIDT, Mr. BERGMAN, Mr. 
FLEISCHMANN, Mr. MOYLAN, Mr. CASE, Mr. MCCORMICK, Mr. 
MOULTON, Ms. DAVIDS of Kansas, Mr. FIELDS, Mrs. RADEWAGEN, and 
Mr. SORENSEN) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Armed Services 
A BILL 
To establish a process to furnish to State educational agen-
cies certain demographic data regarding members of the 
Armed Forces. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Military and Edu-
cational Data Integration Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. PROCESS TO FURNISH CERTAIN DEMOGRAPHIC 
DATA REGARDING MEMBERS OF THE ARMED 
FORCES TO STATE EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretaries concerned, in 
consultation with the Secretary of Education, State edu-
cational agencies, local educational agencies, and experts 
in student data and privacy, shall, not later than 18 
months after the date of enactment of this Act, establish 
a data sharing process that enables a State educational 
agency to— 
(1) access data described in subsection (b) at-
tributable to individuals who graduated high school 
in the State of such State educational agency; and 
(2) integrate such data into— 
(A) such State’s statewide longitudinal 
data system; or 
(B) an alternate data system operated by 
such State. 
(b) DATA DESCRIBED.—The data described in this 
paragraph may include the following information: 
(1) With respect to an individual who is a mem-
ber of an Armed Force who graduated from sec-
ondary school: 
(A) The highest level of education at-
tained. 
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(C) The name and location of the sec-
ondary school from which the individual grad-
uated. 
(D) Score on the Armed Forces Qualifica-
tion Test. 
(c) PRIVACY.— 
(1) 
CONFIDENTIALITY.—Data 
transmitted 
through the data sharing process under subsection 
(a) shall be transmitted confidentially and using the 
most current standards for data security at the time 
of transmission. 
(2) PROTECTION OF INDIVIDUAL PRIVACY AND 
DATA SECURITY.—The Secretaries concerned shall 
carry out subsection (a) in a manner that protects 
individual privacy and data security, in 
accord-
ance with applicable Federal, State, and local pri-
vacy laws. 
(3) DATA
SECURITY
PRACTICES.—Each Sec-
retary concerned and each State educational agency 
that accesses data under subsection (a) shall estab-
lish, implement, and maintain reasonable data secu-
rity practices to protect— 
(A) the confidentiality, integrity, and avail-
ability of data; and 
(B) data against unauthorized access. 
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(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘Secretary concerned’’ means— 
(A) the Secretary of Defense; or 
(B) the Secretary of Homeland Security. 
(2) The terms ‘‘local educational agency’’, ‘‘sec-
ondary school’’, and ‘‘State educational agency’’ 
have the meanings given such terms in section 8101 
of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801). 
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