Relating to school email security by requiring school districts, charter schools, and area education agencies to implement certain email security standards

This bill relates to student email security, including requiring school districts, charter schools, and area education agencies to implement certain email security standards. The bill requires school districts, charter schools, and area education agencies to implement student email security solutions by January 1, 2027. The solutions must include inbound and outbound email filtering for spam, malware, phishing, ransomware, and advanced threats; artificial intelligence-driven threat detection; full-spectrum impersonation protection; data loss prevention scanning for personally identifiable information, protected health information, and student records; policy-based encryption of sensitive outbound emails; quarantine and end-user self-service portals; directory service integration; comprehensive logging and reporting; and support for integration with productivity platforms. A school district, charter school, or area education agency is noncompliant if its email security solution does not meet the requirements of the bill.3.35.2. The inclusion of this specification is intended to reinstate the requirement of school districts and area education agencies to comply with any state mandates included in the bill.