Sec. 10. (a) Each public school shall and each private school may require a student who initially enrolls in the school to provide:

(1) the name and address of the school the student last attended; and

(2) a certified copy of the student's birth certificate or other reliable proof of the student's date of birth.

(b) Not more than fourteen (14) days after initial enrollment in a school, the school shall request the student's records from the school the student last attended.

(c) If the document described in subsection (a)(2):

(1) is not provided to the school not more than thirty (30) days after the student's enrollment; or

(2) appears to be inaccurate or fraudulent;

the school shall notify the Indiana clearinghouse for information on missing children and missing endangered adults established under IC 10-13-5-5 and determine if the student has been reported missing.

(d) A school in Indiana receiving a request for records shall send the records promptly to the requesting school. However, if a request is received for records to which a notice has been attached under IC 31-36-1-5 (or IC 31-6-13-6 before its repeal), the school:

(1) shall immediately notify the Indiana clearinghouse for information on missing children and missing endangered adults;

(2) may not send the school records without the authorization of the clearinghouse; and

(3) may not inform the requesting school that a notice under IC 31-36-1-5 (or IC 31-6-13-6 before its repeal) has been attached to the records.

(e) Notwithstanding subsection (d), if a parent of a child who has enrolled in an accredited nonpublic school is in breach of a contract that conditions release of student records on the payment of outstanding tuition and other fees, the accredited nonpublic school shall provide a requesting school sufficient verbal information to permit the requesting school to make an appropriate placement decision regarding the child.

[Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education Recodification Citation: 20-8.1-3-17.1.]

As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.17. Amended by P.L.43-2009, SEC.18; P.L.144-2012, SEC.1.