TITLE: Relating to certain identifying information regarding career school or college students.

SUMMARY: Relating to certain identifying information regarding career school or college students.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to certain identifying information regarding career school or college students. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 132.024(a)(2), Education Code, is amended to read as follows: (2) "Student information" means identifying information [in the commission's possession] regarding a student that is in the possession of the commission, a career school or college, or any other school, educational institution, or business entity from which the commission receives, or regarding which the commission reviews, information through its administration or enforcement of this chapter.The term includes: (A) a student's name, address, telephone number, social security number, e-mail address, or date of birth; (B) any other identifying number or other information that foreseeably could be combined with other publicly available information to reveal identifying information regarding the student; and (C) a student's education records, as defined by 34 C.F.R. Section 99.3. SECTION 2. Section 132.024(c), Education Code, is amended to read as follows: (c) Unless permitted by Subchapter F, Chapter 301, Labor Code, 34 C.F.R. Part 99, Subpart D, or commission rule, a person commits an offense if the person solicits, discloses, receives, or uses, or authorizes, permits, participates in, or acquiesces in another person's use of, student information. SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.