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       
   
           __________________
                Governor