President Barack Obama is set to announce new legislation that aims to protect consumer privacy and student privacy and offer enhanced protection of home energy usage data, among other things. (Some of the new suggested policies were first put forth in 2012 .)

According to a White House Fact Sheet published Monday, the president will re-introduce the Personal Data Notification and Protection Act, which would establish a federal standard. At present, nearly all US states and territories have some similar form of notification but the conditions under which that law is triggered and how long businesses have varies. Under the new proposed federal standard, companies would have 30 days to notify their customers after they discover a breach.

The president is also putting forth a new “Student Privacy Act,” which would require that data collected on students “is used only for educational purposes.” This proposed federal legislation, the White House notes, is modeled on California’s legislation, which was enacted in September 2014.

California has a history of pushing privacy concepts into law and influencing non-California businesses to comply. For example, the California Online Privacy Protection Act requires websites to prominently describe data collection and use. (Condé Nast, Ars’ parent company, does this even though it is not based in California.)

Snooping on your kilowatts

The White House is also introducing new guidelines on when, where, and how someone’s energy usage is disclosed. For months, energy firms and government officials have been working on a Voluntary Code of Conduct (VCC), releasing a draft in August 2014.

Such data is potentially sensitive—with it, someone could reasonably ascertain when a person was home or not (energy use spikes when occupants are home) and establish patterns of behavior, even over years. In the case of Pacific Gas & Electric, the utility for nearly all of Northern California, usage and billing records are kept for seven years.

The Obama Administration’s VCC would contain an exception for data sharing with law enforcement, which has happened in the past. As the American Civil Liberties Union observed in 2013:

Obama will address all of these proposals at a speech before the Federal Trade Commission on Monday and at the State of the Union address on January 20.