S. 5408
Student Voter Data Protection Act
Sponsor: Mike Lee · 0 cosponsors
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This Act may be cited as the Student Voter Data Protection Act.
Section 444 of the General Education Provisions Act (20 U.S.C. 1232g, commonly known as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974) is amended by adding at the end the following:
(k) No funds shall be made available under any applicable program to any postsecondary educational institution that discloses personally identifiable information (including through sale or transfer), including directory information, from a student for the purpose of measuring voter registration or the voting rates of students enrolled at a postsecondary educational institution, without the prior, informed, written consent of the student provided in a manner consistent with section 99.30 of title 34, Code of Federal Regulations (or any successor regulations).
Section 444(a)(5) of the General Education Provisions Act (20 U.S.C. 1232g(a)(5); commonly referred to as the ‘Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974’) is amended—
(1) in subparagraph (B), by striking Any educational agency or institution and inserting Subject to subparagraph (C), any educational agency or institution; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
(C) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, no funds shall be made available under any applicable program to any educational institution that is a postsecondary educational institution that sells the personally identifiable education records, including directory information, of a student without the prior, informed, written consent of the student provided in a manner consistent with section 99.30 of title 34, Code of Federal Regulations (or any successor regulations).