The children’s cabinet shall: (1) Meet at least monthly to address all issues, especially those that cross departmental lines, and relate to children’s needs and services; (2) Review, amend, and propose all interagency agreements necessary to provide coordinated services to children; (3) Produce an annual comprehensive children’s budget, to be submitted with other budget documents to the general assembly; (4) Produce, by December 1, 2015, a comprehensive, five-year (5) statewide plan and proposed budget for an integrated state child service system. This plan shall be submitted to the governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the president of the senate, and updated annually thereafter; (5) [Deleted by P.L. 2015, ch. 141, art. 5, § 21.] (6) Develop a strategic plan to coordinate and share data to foster interagency communication, increase efficiency of service delivery, and simultaneously protect children’s legitimate expectations of privacy and rights to confidentiality. This shall include data-sharing with research partners, pursuant to data-sharing agreements, that maintains data integrity and protects the security and ions of privacy and rights to confidentiality. This shall include data-sharing with research partners, pursuant to data-sharing agreements, that maintains data integrity and protects the security and confidentiality of these records. Any such data-sharing agreements shall comply with all privacy and security requirements of federal and state law and regulation governing the use of such data. Any universal student identifier now in use by the state or developed in the future shall not involve a student’s social security number. History of Section.P.L. 1991, ch. 339, § 1; P.L. 2001, ch. 150, § 1; P.L. 2015, ch. 141, art. 5, § 21.
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