SB 17-102
failedProhibit Use Of Certain Student Personal Information
Plain-English Summary
AI-generatedSenate Bill 17-102, which has been signed into law, stops companies that provide services to schools from collecting or sharing information about a student's citizenship status or religious beliefs. This means these companies can't use such sensitive details for any purpose, even if they had permission before this bill was passed. The law affects both students and the organizations that work with educational institutions. Since it has been signed, the protections are now in place to safeguard students' personal information related to their citizenship or religion.
Official Summary
The bill defines 'classification information' as information that identifies the citizenship status or religion of a student or the student's family. The bill prohibits a school service contract provider from collecting, using, or sharing classification information. With regard to existing statutory exceptions that allow a school service contract provider to share or sell certain student personally identifying information, the bill prohibits the sharing or sale of classification information. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
Details
- Chamber
- Senate
- First action
- 2017-02-15
- Latest action
- 2017-01-27
- Last action desc.
- Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education
- OpenStates
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