Dive Brief:

• Two U.S. Senators introduced a bill Wednesday that would update the student education records section of the Family Educational Rights and Protection Act, or FERPA.
• The proposed legislation sets out the information security practices that educational institutions and outside parties must follow, along with their data responsibilities.
• Federal funding for educational institutions would be tied to their compliance with the legislation.

Dive Insight:

The bill, sponsored by Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA) and Orinn Hatch (R-UT), is called the Protecting Student Privacy Act. Under their proposal, federal funding would be cut for educational institutions that don’t implement policies to protect personally identifiable information or that provide access to that information for marketing or advertising, ask for that information when unnecessary, or don’t destroy that information when it’s not needed any longer.