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Code · BILL · 113th Congress · H.R. 537 (Introduced in House) — To prohibit employers and certain other entities from requiring or requesting that employees and certain other indivi... · Sec. 3

Sec. 3. Institution of higher education access to personal accounts on social networking websites

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Section 487(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1095(a) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: The institution will not— require or request that a student or potential student provide the institution with a user name, password, or any other means for accessing a private email account of the student or potential student or the personal account of the student or potential student on any social networking website; or discharge, discipline, discriminate against in any manner, or deny admission to, suspend, or expel, or threaten to take any such action against, any student or potential student because— the student or potential student refuses or declines to provide a user name, password, or other means for accessing a private email account of the student or potential student or the personal account of the student or potential student on any social networking website; or such student or potential student has filed any complaint or instituted or caused to be instituted any proceeding under or related to this paragraph or has testified or is about to testify in any such proceeding.
For purposes of this paragraph, the term social networking website has the meaning given such term in section 5(2) of the Social Networking Online Protection Act . .
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