Bill Text: NY S09597 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 9597

Introduced

Bill Title: Enables students to receive information from colleges and universities without disclosing their personally identifiable information via an opt-in system.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-16 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S09597 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09597-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9597

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 16, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to enabling  students  to
          receive  information from colleges and universities without disclosing
          their personally identifiable information

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subparagraph 2 of paragraph f of subdivision 5 of section
     2  2-d of the education law, as added by section 1 of subpart L of part  AA
     3  of chapter 56 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (2)  not  use  the education records for any other purposes than those
     5  explicitly authorized in its contract, provided,  however,  a  permitted
     6  use  which  may be authorized by contract may include voluntary programs
     7  through which students can  affirmatively  opt-in  to  be  connected  to
     8  nonprofit  colleges and scholarship providers and government agencies to
     9  receive information about their educational, financial aid, and scholar-
    10  ship programs and  conditional  offers  of  admission,  subject  to  the
    11  student's personally identifiable information not being disclosed by the
    12  third party contractor to such institutions;
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14937-01-4