By: Jackson S.B. No. 711
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the confidentiality of certain identifying information
  regarding students of career schools or colleges and other
  educational entities; providing a criminal penalty.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 132, Education Code, is
  amended by adding Section 132.024 to read as follows:
         Sec. 132.024.  STUDENT INFORMATION; OFFENSE; PENALTY.
  (a)  In this section:
               (1)  "Student" means any prospective, current, or
  former student of:
                     (A)  a career school or college; or
                     (B)  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.
               (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.
         (b)  Student information is not public information for
  purposes of Chapter 552, Government Code.
         (c)  Unless permitted by Subchapter F, Chapter 301, Labor
  Code, 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.
         (d)  An offense under Subsection (c) is a Class A
  misdemeanor.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.