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Delegate Price advances bill requiring student consent before sharing biometric data
Summary
Delegate Price introduced House Bill 971 to prohibit schools and NIL agreements from sharing student biometric data for betting without the student's consent; the subcommittee recommended the bill for reporting to the full committee.
Delegate Price told the Virginia Senate Higher Education Subcommittee that he is sponsoring House Bill 971 to prevent schools and third parties from sharing students' biometric data without consent. He said the bill responds to sports-betting products and NIL arrangements that could use biometric signals such as sleep patterns or heart rate to inform wagers. "What we wanted to do was prevent that from happening to the students," he said, adding the bill would require student consent and bar NIL contracts from forcing students to surrender biometric data.
The bill's sponsor said the measure grew out of earlier work on sports-betting legislation and consultations with stakeholders, including an attorney for the National Football Players Association who flagged risks to student-athletes. The subcommittee asked whether anyone opposed the bill; no opposition was recorded during the session. A motion recommending House Bill 971 for reporting to the full committee was moved and seconded and the subcommittee signaled assent.
The proposal would make consent a condition for a school to disclose biometric data and would prevent inclusion of biometric-data waivers as a mandatory term in NIL contracts for students. The subcommittee's vote was procedural: members recommended the bill for reporting to the full committee so that it may receive further consideration.
