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S209 • 2025

Data Privacy for Minors.

Data Privacy for Minors.

Children Privacy
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Chitlik, Murdock, Waddell
Last action
2025-03-03
Official status
Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate
Effective date
Not listed

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Data Privacy for Minors.

Data Privacy for Minors.

What This Bill Does

  • Data Privacy for Minors.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2025-03-03 Senate

    Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate

  2. 2025-03-03 Senate

    Passed 1st Reading

  3. 2025-02-27 Senate

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Data Privacy for Minors.

Current Bill Text

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
S 1
SENATE BILL 209

Short Title: Data Privacy for Minors. (Local)
Sponsors: Senators Chitlik and Murdock (Primary Sponsors).
Referred to: Rules and Operations of the Senate
March 3, 2025
*S209-v-1*
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO EXPAND THE LOCALITIES TO WHICH THE PROVISIONS GOVE RNING 2
LIMITED ACCESS TO IDENTIFYING INFORMATION OF MINORS PARTICIPATING 3
IN CERTAIN PROGRAMS APPLY. 4
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 5
SECTION 1. G.S. 132-1.11A reads as rewritten: 6
"§ 132-1.11A. Limited access to identifying information of minors participating in local 7
government programs and programs funded by the North Carolina Partnership 8
for Children, Inc., or a local partnership in certain localities. 9
(a) A public record, as defined by G.S. 132-1, does not include, as to any minor 10
participating in a program sponsored by a local government or combination of local governments, 11
a program funded by the North Carolina Partnership for Children, Inc., under G.S. 143B-168.12, 12
or a program funded by a local partnership under G.S. 143B-168.14, any of the following 13
information as to that minor participant: (i) name, (ii) address, (iii) age, (iv) date of birth, (v) 14
telephone number, (vi) the name or address of that minor participant's parent or legal guardian, 15
(vii) e-mail address, or (viii) any other identifying information on an application to participate in 16
such program or other records related to that program. Notwithstanding this subsection, the name 17
of a minor who has received a scholarship or other local government-funded award of a financial 18
nature from a local government is a public record. 19
(b) The county, municipality, and zip code of residence of each participating minor 20
covered by subsection (a) of this section is a public record, with the information listed in 21
subsection (a) of this section redacted. 22
(c) Nothing in this section makes the information listed in subsection (a) of this section 23
confidential information. 24
(d) This section applies to the County of Chat ham, Counties of Chatham and Durham, 25
the Towns of Apex, Cary, Fuquay -Varina, Garner, Holly Springs, Knightdale, Morrisville, 26
Rolesville, Wake Forest, Wendell, and Zebulon, and the City of Raleigh only." 27
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law. 28