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View NCGA Bill Details(link is external)2025-2026 Session
Senate Bill 133 (Public) Filed Friday, February 21, 2025
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE STATE BOARD OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES TO SOLICIT A LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR ALL COMMUNITY COLLEGES, TO PROVIDE AN EXEMPTION FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR THE COMMUNITY COLLEGES SYSTEM OFFICE, AND TO MAKE VARIOUS CHANGES TO THE GENERAL STATUTES RELATED TO THE NORTH CAROLINA LONGITUDINAL DATA SYSTEM.
Intro. by Lee, Overcash, Corbin.

Status: Ch. SL 2025-62 (Jul 3 2025)

SOG comments (1):

Long title change

Committee substitute to the 1st edition changed the long title. Original long title was AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE STATE BOARD OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES TO 3 SOLICIT A LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR ALL COMMUNITY 4 COLLEGES AND TO ADD THE COMMUNITY COLLEGES SYSTEM OFFICE TO THE 5 LIST OF ENTITIES EXEMPTED IN G.S. 143B-1320.

Bill History:

S 133/S.L. 2025-62

Bill Summaries:

  • Summary date: Jul 3 2025 - View Summary

    AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE STATE BOARD OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES TO SOLICIT A LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR ALL COMMUNITY COLLEGES, TO PROVIDE AN EXEMPTION FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR THE COMMUNITY COLLEGES SYSTEM OFFICE, AND TO MAKE VARIOUS CHANGES TO THE GENERAL STATUTES RELATED TO THE NORTH CAROLINA LONGITUDINAL DATA SYSTEM. SL 2025-62. Enacted July 3, 2025. Effective July 3, 2025, except as otherwise provided.


  • Summary date: Jun 10 2025 - View Summary

    House committee substitute to the 1st edition makes the following changes and adds new Part III.  Makes organizational changes. Makes conforming changes to act’s long and short titles.  

    Part I.

    Requires the State Board of Community Colleges (Board) to complete its transition to the new learning management by December 31, 2027.  

    Part III.

    Changes the title of GS Chapter 116E to the “NC Longitudinal Data System” (currently, titled as the Education Longitude System).  Adds CJIS, HIPAA, IDEA, and public school unit to GS 116E-1 (definitions provision of the chapter). Modifies the definition of System to clarify that it refers to the NC Longitudinal Data System including components referred to as the NC Longitudinal Data Service (Service). Changes references from “local school administrative unit” to “public school” in term unique student identifier or UID. Makes technical changes.

    Removes language limiting the linkage of student data and workforce data in the System to no longer than five years from the described start date in GS 116E-2 (System purpose).

    Modifies the powers and duties of the Governmental Data Analytics Center (Center) in GS 116E-4 as follows. Removes requirement that the Center designate a compliance timeline for electronic transcripts, as described. Requires the Center to publish the data inventory. Expands the Center’s compliance laws to include the IDEA, HIPAA, CJIS, and the Internal Revenue Code. Requires the Center to develop and implement policies to also comply with those laws in addition to any other privacy measures relevant to the data available to the System (currently, just other privacy measures and FERPA). Makes conforming change. Moves the System’s administrative location from the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) to the Department of Information Technology (DIT) in GS 116E-5. Now requires the System to serve as a data broker including data maintained by (1) governing bodies of public school units and public school units (was, local boards of education, local school administrative units, and public school units) and (2) for the entire Department of Commerce (DOC) instead of just its Division of Employment Security. Requires the System and recipients of data in fulfillment of approved data requests to use only aggregated data in public reports (currently, requires the System to use only aggregate data in the release of data in reports and in response to data requests). Instructs that ownership of all data collected and maintained by the System remains with the contributors to the System and that management and disclosure of data by the System does not change the data’s ownership. Makes conforming changes.

    Requires in GS 116E-6 (concerning data sharing by public schools, charter schools, institutions of higher education and State agencies) that all sharing supported by the System comply with all applicable federal and State data and data privacy laws and regulations. Makes conforming change.

    Effective July 1, 2025.


  • Summary date: Feb 21 2025 - View Summary

    Requires the State Board of Community Colleges (Board) to conduct a competitive solicitation, including a request for information or a request for proposals, to provide a learning management system to all community colleges by December 31, 2025. Specifies that answers to the solicitation must include on how the learning management system would align with the learning management systems (1) offered by the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) to local school administrative units and (2) used by UNC constituent institutions. Requires the Board to report the information received to the specified NCGA committees and the Fiscal Research Division. Exempts the Community College Systems Office from the requirements of Article 15 of GS Chapter 143B (Department of Information Technology). Allows the Office, by written election through the Board, to participate in information technology programs, services, or contracts offered by the Department of Information Technology, including information technology procurement, in accordance with the statutes, policies, and rules of the department. Makes conforming changes.