Law / United States / 
Minnesota
Sale of student information to card issuers and credit card marketing at postsecondary institutions
In force since .
A sensitive categories rule binding public and private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Prohibition, Consent
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- If you are a public or private postsecondary educational institution, including your agents, employees, student or alumni organizations and affiliates, do not sell, give or otherwise transfer the name, address, telephone number or other contact information of an undergraduate student to a card issuer without the student's consent (Minn. Stat. 135A.145, subd. 1, clause (1)).
- Do not enter into an agreement to market credit cards to undergraduate students at your postsecondary educational institution (Minn. Stat. 135A.145, subd. 1, clause (2)).
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Who enforces it
Enforcement body
The attorney general, who may seek the penalties and remedies available under section 8.31 against a person who violates the section.
What record it asks for
Logging duty
Section 135A.145 bars an institution from transferring an undergraduate student's contact information to a card issuer without consent and from entering into an agreement to market credit cards to undergraduates. No record, audit or demand for a record is named. The section contains no territorial test.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
No public or private postsecondary educational institution, including its agents, employees, student or alumni organizations, or affiliates, may sell, give, or otherwise transfer to any card issuer the name, address, telephone number, or other contact information of an undergraduate student without the student's consent. The same section bars such an institution from entering into any agreement to market credit cards to undergraduate students at a postsecondary educational institution.
The attorney general may seek the penalties and remedies available under section 8.31 against any person who violates this section. Section 135A.145 is effective .
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