H.B. No. 2413
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.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2413 was passed by the House on April
28, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 127, Nays 7, 2 present, not
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
No. 2413 on May 21, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 131, Nays 8,
2 present, not voting.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2413 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 19, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
0.
______________________________
Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: __________________
Date
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Governor