53H-15-101. General provisions -- Definitions.

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Effective 5/6/2026

As used in this chapter:

(1)"Advisory board" means the Utah Data Research Advisory Board created in Section 53H-15-203 .

(2)"Center" means the Utah Data Research Center created in Section 53H-15-202 .

(3)"Data" means any information about a person stored in a physical or electronic record.

(4)"Data research program" means the data maintained by the center in accordance with Section 53H-15-302 .

(5)"De-identified data" means data about a person that cannot, without additional information, identify the person to another person or machine.

(6)"Director" means the director of the Utah Data Research Center created in Section 53H-15-202 .

(7)"Office" means the Office of the Legislative Auditor General created in Section 36-12-15 .

(8)"Participating entity" means:

(a)the State Board of Education, which includes the director as defined in Section 53E-10-701 ;

(b)the board;

(c)the Department of Workforce Services;

(d)the Department of Health and Human Services; and

(e)the Department of Commerce.

(9)"Participating state agency" means a department, division, office, entity, agency, or other unit of state government that provides data to the program described under Section 53H-15-305 .

(10)"Personal data" means data as defined in Subsection 63A-19-101(24) .

(11)"Unique student identifier" means the same as that term is defined in Section 53E-4-308 .

Amended by Chapter 355 , 2026 General Session