S.B. No. 1696         AN ACT   relating to establishing a system for the sharing of information   regarding cyber attacks or other cybersecurity incidents occurring   in schools in this state.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  The heading to Section 11.175, Education Code,   is amended to read as follows:          Sec. 11.175.  SCHOOL [DISTRICT] CYBERSECURITY.          SECTION 2.  Section 11.175, Education Code, is amended by   amending Subsection (e) and adding Subsections (g), (h), and (i) to   read as follows:          (e)  A school district or open-enrollment charter school   [The district's cybersecurity coordinator] shall report to the   agency or, if applicable, the entity that administers the system   established under Subsection (g) any cyber attack or other   cybersecurity incident against the school district's or   open-enrollment charter school's [district] cyberinfrastructure   that constitutes a breach of system security as soon as practicable   after the discovery of the attack or incident.          (g)  The agency, in coordination with the Department of   Information Resources, shall establish and maintain a system to   coordinate the anonymous sharing of information concerning cyber   attacks or other cybersecurity incidents between participating   schools and the state.  The system must:                (1)  include each report made under Subsection (e);                (2)  provide for reports made under Subsection (e) to   be shared between participating schools in as close to real time as   possible; and                (3)  preserve a reporting school's anonymity by   preventing the disclosure through the system of the name of the   school at which an attack or incident occurred.          (h)  In establishing the system under Subsection (g), the   agency may contract with a qualified third party to administer the   system.          (i)  The commissioner shall adopt rules as necessary to   implement this section.          SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.             ______________________________ ______________________________      President of the Senate Speaker of the House                 I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1696 passed the Senate on   April 20, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 28, Nays 3; and that   the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 29, 2021, by the   following vote: Yeas 26, Nays 4.       ______________________________   Secretary of the Senate                I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1696 passed the House, with   amendment, on May 26, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 146,   Nays 0, one present not voting.       ______________________________   Chief Clerk of the House            Approved:     ______________________________                Date       ______________________________              Governor