A01468 Summary:
BILL NO | A01468 |
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SAME AS | No Same As |
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SPONSOR | Crouch |
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COSPNSR | Kolb, Hawley |
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MLTSPNSR | Finch, Lawrence |
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Add Art 14-B S695-n, Ed L | |
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Excludes illegal aliens from attending public post-secondary educational institutions; requires such educational institutions to verify the legal citizenship status of all students; requires such educational institutions to provide information regarding the attendance of suspected illegal aliens to the commissioner of education, the New York state attorney general and the United States immigration and naturalization service. |
A01468 Actions:
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01/12/2015 | referred to higher education | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/06/2016 | referred to higher education | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/25/2016 | held for consideration in higher education |
A01468 Memo:
Go to topNEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)   BILL NUMBER: A1468 SPONSOR: Crouch (MS)
  TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the education law, in relation to the exclusion of illegal aliens from attending public post-secondary educa- tional institutions   PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: Excludes illegal aliens from attend- ing public postsecondary educational institutions.   SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: This legislation would require post- secondary educational institutions to verify the status of each person enrolled in or in attendance at such institutions. It prohibits such institutions from admitting, enrolling or permitting the attendance of illegal aliens.   JUSTIFICATION: Education represents perhaps the greatest state and local cost attributable to federal immigration policy. Public higher education is a service which should be available only to citizens and to legal immigrants.   PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: None   FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: This legislation will save considerable state revenues.   EFFECTIVE DATE: The one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of section one of this act on its effective date is authorized to be made on or before such effective date.
A01468 Text:
Go to top STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1468 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 12, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH, KOLB -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. FINCH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the exclusion of ille- gal aliens from attending public post-secondary educational insti- tutions The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new article 14-B 2 to read as follows: 3 ARTICLE 14-B 4 EXCLUSION OF ILLEGAL ALIENS FROM PUBLIC POST-SECONDARY 5 EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS 6 Section 695-n. Exclusion of illegal aliens from public post-secondary 7 educational institutions. 8 § 695-n. Exclusion of illegal aliens from public post-secondary educa- 9 tional institutions. 1. No public institution of post-secondary educa- 10 tion shall admit, enroll or permit the attendance of any person who is 11 not one of the following: 12 (a) a citizen of the United States; 13 (b) an alien lawfully admitted as a permanent resident; 14 (c) an alien lawfully admitted for a temporary period of time; or 15 (d) a person who is otherwise authorized under federal law to be pres- 16 ent in the United States. 17 2. Commencing with the first term or semester that begins after Janu- 18 ary first, two thousand fifteen, and on the commencement of each term or 19 semester thereafter, each public post-secondary educational institution 20 shall verify the status of each person enrolled or in attendance at that 21 institution in order to ensure the enrollment or attendance only of 22 United States citizens, aliens lawfully admitted as permanent residents 23 in the United States, aliens lawfully admitted for a temporary period of EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05127-01-5A. 1468 2 1 time and persons who are otherwise authorized under federal law to be 2 present in the United States. 3 3. No later than forty-five days after the admissions officer of a 4 public post-secondary educational institution becomes aware of the 5 application, enrollment or attendance of a person determined to be, or 6 who is under reasonable suspicion of being, in the United States in 7 violation of federal immigration laws, that officer shall provide such 8 information to the commissioner, the attorney general and the United 9 States bureau of immigration and customs enforcement. Such information 10 shall also be provided to the applicant, enrollee or person admitted. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 12 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 13 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 14 tation of section one of this act on its effective date is authorized to 15 be made on or before such effective date.