HB0141 - Prohibition on sale of school district employee information.

 

2001

State of Wyoming

01LSO-0273

 

 

 

HOUSE BILL NO.  HB0141

 

 

Prohibition on sale of school district employee
information.

 

Sponsored by:  Representative(s) McGraw, Diercks and
Wasserburger and Senator(s) Schiffer and
Sessions

 

 

A BILL

 

for

 

 1  AN ACT relating to school districts; specifying that
 2  personal information pertaining to school district
 3  employees is confidential; prohibiting school district
 4  officials or employees from selling or distributing this
 5  information; providing an exception; imposing a penalty;
 6  and providing for an effective date.

 7 

 8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

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10         Section 1.  W.S. 21-3-132 is created to read:

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12         21-3-132.  Personal information pertaining to school
13  district employees; confidential; prohibition against
14  selling or distributing such information; exception;
15  penalty.

 

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 2         (a)  Personal information or records pertaining to
 3  school district employees is confidential. No school
 4  district official or employee shall sell or otherwise
 5  distribute personal information or records with respect to
 6  the employees of the school district expect as provided by
 7  subsection (b) of this section.

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 9         (b)  Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section,
10  personal information or records pertaining to school
11  district employees may be sold or distributed if:

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13              (i)  The employee who is the person in interest
14  of the information or record to be sold or distributed
15  consents in writing to the sale or distribution of the
16  information or record pertaining to him; or

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18              (ii)  The sale or distribution of the information
19  or record is required by law.

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21         (c)  Any school district official or employee who
22  sells or distributes information or records pertaining to a
23  school district employee in violation of subsection (a) of
24  this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon

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 1  conviction, is subject to a fine of not more than seven
 2  hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), imprisonment for not more
 3  than six (6) months, or both.

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 5         (d)  For purposes of this section:

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 7              (i)  "Person in interest" means the person who is
 8  the subject of the information or record, or any
 9  representative designated by the person;

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11              (ii)  "Personal information or record" means the
12  names, addresses and telephone numbers of employees of the
13  school district and any information contained in records
14  specified under W.S. 16-4-203(d)(i), (iii) and (iv).

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16         Section 2.  This act is effective immediately upon
17  completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law
18  as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming
19  Constitution.

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21                         (END)

 

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