85R13100 SRS-D
By: West S.B. No. 2085
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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. 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. Sections 132.024(b) and (c), Education Code, are
amended to read as follows:
(b) Student information in the possession of the commission
or a career school or college is not public information for purposes
of Chapter 552, Government Code.
(c) Unless permitted by Subchapter F, Chapter 301, Labor
Code, or commission rule:
(1)[,] 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 in the commission's possession; and
(2) a career school or college commits an offense if
the career school or college discloses or disposes of student
information in the career school or college's possession.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.