1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Protecting Student Privacy Act of 2017 . 2. FERPA improvements Subsection (b) of section 444 of the General Education Provisions Act ( 20 U.S.C. 1232g ) (commonly referred to as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 ) is amended— (1) by redesignating paragraphs (4) through (7) as paragraphs (8) through (11), respectively; (2) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following: (4) (A) No funds shall be made available under any applicable program to any educational agency or institution that has not implemented information security policies and procedures that— (i) protect personally identifiable information from education records maintained by the educational agency or institution