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| To amend section 1349.99 and to enact sections | 1 |
| 1349.38 and 3345.331 of the Revised Code to | 2 |
| prohibit campus credit card marketing activities | 3 |
| and to prohibit a state institution of higher | 4 |
| education from releasing student directory | 5 |
| information to any person or group for use in a | 6 |
| profit-making plan or activity. | 7 |
| Section 1. That section 1349.99 be amended and sections | 8 |
| 1349.38 and 3345.331 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as | 9 |
| follows: | 10 |
| Sec. 1349.38. (A) No person shall engage in campus credit | 11 |
| card marketing activities. | 12 |
| (B) No person shall knowingly mail an advertisement or offer | 13 |
| for a credit card to an on-campus student housing address. | 14 |
| (C) As used in this section: | 15 |
| (1) "Credit card" and "card issuer" have the same meanings as | 16 |
| in the "Truth in Lending Act," 82 Stat. 146 (1968), 15 U.S.C. | 17 |
| 1602. | 18 |
| (2) "Campus" means the land and buildings that a state | 19 |
| institution of higher education uses for instruction or student | 20 |
| services. | 21 |
| (3) "Campus credit card marketing activity" means any | 22 |
| activity conducted by an agent or employee of a card issuer on | 23 |
| property owned or operated by, located on the campus of, or at an | 24 |
| event sanctioned by a state institution of higher education, | 25 |
| designed to encourage and enable students to apply for a credit | 26 |
| card and includes the act of placing on the campus a display or | 27 |
| poster together with a form that can be returned to the card | 28 |
| issuer as a credit card application, even if an employee or agent | 29 |
| of the card issuer is not present at the display. | 30 |
| (4) "On-campus student housing" has the same meaning as in | 31 |
| section 3345.85 of the Revised Code. | 32 |
| Sec. 1349.99. (A) Whoever violates section 1349.06 or 1349.17 | 33 |
| of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. | 34 |
| (B)(1) Whoever violates section 1349.45 of the Revised Code | 35 |
| is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. | 36 |
| (2) Notwithstanding division (B)(1) of this section, the only | 37 |
| remedies that are available for a violation of section 1349.45 of | 38 |
| the Revised Code by a registrant or licensee under sections | 39 |
| 1322.01 to 1322.12 of the Revised Code are those set forth in | 40 |
| section 1322.10 of the Revised Code or otherwise provided by | 41 |
| statute or common law. | 42 |
| (3) The provisions of division (B) of this section are not | 43 |
| intended to be exclusive remedies and do not preclude the use of | 44 |
| any other remedy provided by law. | 45 |
| (C) Whoever knowingly violates section 1349.38 of the Revised | 46 |
| Code shall be fined twenty-five hundred dollars for each | 47 |
| violation. | 48 |
| Sec. 3345.331. (A) No state institution of higher education | 49 |
| or an agent, employee, student or alumni organization, booster | 50 |
| organization, or affiliate, of a state institution of higher | 51 |
| education, shall do any of the following: | 52 |
| (1) Release, through sale or otherwise, student directory | 53 |
| information to any person or group for use in a profit-making plan | 54 |
| or activity; | 55 |
| (2) Enter into, renew, or rollover a contract or agreement | 56 |
| with any entity to market credit cards to students; | 57 |
| (3) Permit a card issuer to promote a credit card business or | 58 |
| to solicit or distribute applications for a credit card on the | 59 |
| property of the state institution of higher education or at any | 60 |
| event sanctioned by the state institution of higher education; | 61 |
| (4) Promote a credit card business on the state institution | 62 |
| of higher education's internet site, or include on the internet | 63 |
| site an electronic link to the internet site of a credit card | 64 |
| business. | 65 |
| (B) As used in this section: | 66 |
| (1) "State institution of higher education" has the same | 67 |
| meaning as in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code. | 68 |
| (2) "Student directory information" means the name, address, | 69 |
| telephone listing, date and place of birth, social security | 70 |
| number, or e-mail address of a student. | 71 |
| (3) "Credit card" and "card issuer" have the same meanings as | 72 |
| in the "Truth in Lending Act," 82 Stat. 146 (1968), 15 U.S.C. | 73 |
| 1602. | 74 |
| Section 2. That existing section 1349.99 of the Revised Code | 75 |
| is hereby repealed. | 76 |
| Section 3. The Ohio Board of Regents shall provide a written | 77 |
| report to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the | 78 |
| President of the Senate within thirty days after the effective | 79 |
| date of this act. The report shall list each contract or agreement | 80 |
| in effect between a state institution of higher education with any | 81 |
| entity to market credit cards to students, the name of the entity, | 82 |
| and the termination date of the contract or agreement. The report | 83 |
| also shall list each contract or agreement in effect between a | 84 |
| state institution of higher education or an agent, employee, | 85 |
| student or alumni organization, or affiliate, of a state | 86 |
| institution of higher education, and any entity, for the release, | 87 |
| through sale or otherwise, of student directory information to any | 88 |
| person or group for use in a profit-making plan or activity, the | 89 |
| name of the entities subject to the contract or agreement, and the | 90 |
| termination date of the contract or agreement. | 91 |