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This bill would require Utah's State Board of Education and Board of Higher Education to build, by August 2027, a formal system for sharing academic records of students in grades 7 through 12 with the state's colleges, universities, and technical schools, in order to support programs such as concurrent enrollment, early college, technical college pathways, scholarships, financial aid, admissions, and related audits or reporting. School districts and charter schools would be required to supply the necessary data and to notify parents about what information is collected, how it will be used, and their right to opt their child out of having data shared for college-access purposes; student behavior and discipline records would be excluded from this sharing. All data exchanges would have to follow existing federal student privacy laws (like FERPA and IDEA) and Utah's own student data protection laws, and any higher education staff, student aides, or volunteers who handle this data would need privacy and security training at least every two years. The Board of Higher Education, working with the State Board of Education, would also gain authority to write detailed rules governing how the data-sharing system operates.