Enables students to receive information from colleges and universities without disclosing their personally identifiable information via an opt-in system.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9967
IN ASSEMBLY
April 30, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on 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
