76-768.   Use of social security number prohibited, when. (a) On and after July 1, 2006:

      (1)   No postsecondary educational institution shall print or encode a person's social security number on or into the person's identification card.

      (2)   Any distinguishing identifier assigned to the person's identification card shall be a combination of numbers or letters or both, which is unique to such person.

      (3)   A person's distinguishing identifier shall not, in any way, be based on or depend on the person's social security number.

      (b)   As used in this section:

      (1)   "Person" means an employee of or a student enrolled at a postsecondary educational institution.

      (2)   "Postsecondary educational institution" means and includes area vocational schools, area vocational-technical schools, community colleges, the municipal university, state educational institutions, technical colleges and private institutions of postsecondary education.

      History:   L. 2004, ch. 185, § 48; June 10.