S 3752: Enables students to receive information from colleges and universities without disclosing their personally identifiable information via an opt-in system.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3752 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 29, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. CLEARE, WEBB -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher 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. LBD08133-01-5