STUDENT ONLINE PERSONAL INFO Senate SponsorsSen. William E. Brady-Patricia Van Pelt 1/9/2019SenateSession Sine Die New ActCreates the Higher Education Student Online Personal Information Protection Act. Provides that the operator of an Internet website, online service, online application, or mobile application used primarily for higher education purposes and designed and marketed for higher education purposes shall not knowingly (1) engage in targeted advertising on the operator's site, service, or application or target advertising on any other site, service, or application when the targeting of the advertising is based upon any information that the operator has acquired because of the use of that operator's site, service, or application; (2) use information created or gathered by the operator's site, service, or application to amass a profile about a student, except in furtherance of higher education purposes; (3) sell a student's information; or (4) disclose covered information, as defined in the Act, without a student's consent. Sets forth exceptions and other provisions concerning the construction and application of the Act. Effective January 1, 2018. 1/24/2017SenateFiled with Secretary by Sen. Michael Connelly 1/24/2017SenateFirst Reading 1/24/2017SenateReferred to Assignments 1/31/2017SenateAdded as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Patricia Van Pelt 2/1/2017SenateAssigned to Judiciary 3/17/2017SenateRule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments 1/30/2018SenateRe-assigned to Judiciary 4/13/2018SenateRule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments 12/21/2018SenateChief Sponsor Changed to Sen. William E. Brady 1/9/2019SenateSession Sine Die