A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to prohibit any constituent institution from assigning a student's social security number as the student's identification number.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Part 5 of Article 1 of Chapter 116 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read:
"§ 116‑43.7.  Social security number shall not be assigned as a student identification number.
(a)	No constituent institution shall assign an individual identification number to a student that is identical to or incorporates the student's social security number.
(b)	No constituent institution shall allow the public display or use of a student's social security number without the written consent of the student.
(c)	This section does not prohibit the use of a student's social security number by a constituent institution when required by applicable State or federal law."
SECTION 2.  The University of North Carolina Board of Governors shall report to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee on the status of the implementation of the Banner Project, an initiative that will allow the constituent institutions to use randomly generated personal identification numbers as student identifiers instead of social security numbers.  The Board shall report at the beginning of the fall semester of the 2006 academic year on the number of institutions that have completed implementation and the target dates for final implementation by the remaining constituent institutions.
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law and applies to all students who enroll for the first time at a constituent institution for the 2007 academic year, beginning with the fall semester and each subsequent semester.