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.