[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 17187]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       UNINTERRUPTED SCHOLARS ACT

  Mrs. HAGAN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the HELP 
Committee be discharged from further consideration of S. 3472 and that 
the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 3472) to amend the Family Educational Rights and 
     Privacy Act of 1974 to provide improvements to such Act.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mrs. HAGAN. I further ask unanimous consent that the Landrieu 
substitute amendment, which is at the desk, be agreed to, the bill, as 
amended, be read a third time and passed, the motion to reconsider be 
made and laid upon the table, with no intervening action or debate, and 
any statements related to the bill be printed in the Record.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment (No. 3345) was agreed to as follows:

                (Purpose: In the nature of a substitute)

       Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the 
     following:

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

       This Act may be cited as the ``Uninterrupted Scholars Act 
     (USA)''.

     SEC. 2. FAMILY EDUCATIONAL RIGHTS AND PRIVACY.

       Section 444(b) of the General Education Provisions Act (20 
     U.S.C. 1232g(b)) (commonly known as the ``Family Educational 
     Rights and Privacy Act of 1974'') is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1)--
       (A) in subparagraph (J)(ii), by striking ``and'' after the 
     semicolon at the end;
       (B) in subparagraph (K)(ii), by striking the period at the 
     end and inserting ``; and''; and
       (C) by inserting after subparagraph (K), the following:
       ``(L) an agency caseworker or other representative of a 
     State or local child welfare agency, or tribal organization 
     (as defined in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and 
     Education Assistance Act (25 U.S. C. 450b)), who has the 
     right to access a student's case plan, as defined and 
     determined by the State or tribal organization, when such 
     agency or organization is legally responsible, in accordance 
     with State or tribal law, for the care and protection of the 
     student, provided that the education records, or the 
     personally identifiable information contained in such 
     records, of the student will not be disclosed by such agency 
     or organization, except to an individual or entity engaged in 
     addressing the student's education needs and authorized by 
     such agency or organization to receive such disclosure and 
     such disclosure is consistent with the State or tribal laws 
     applicable to protecting the confidentiality of a student's 
     education records.''; and
       (2) in paragraph (2)(B), by inserting ``, except when a 
     parent is a party to a court proceeding involving child abuse 
     and neglect (as defined in section 3 of the Child Abuse 
     Prevention and Treatment Act (42 U.S.C. 5101 note)) or 
     dependency matters, and the order is issued in the context of 
     that proceeding, additional notice to the parent by the 
     educational agency or institution is not required'' after 
     ``educational institution or agency''.

  The bill (S. 3472), as amended, was ordered to be engrossed for a 
third reading, was read the third time, and passed.

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