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S04897 Summary:

BILL NO	S04897
SAME AS	SAME AS A01946
SPONSOR	DIAZ
COSPNSR
MLTSPNSR
Add Art 2-A §20, Ed L
Prohibits secondary schools and higher education institutions from withholding student transcripts for failure to pay tuition.

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S04897 Actions:

BILL NO	S04897
03/03/2017	REFERRED TO EDUCATION

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S04897 Committee Votes:

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S04897 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          4897
 
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                      March 3, 2017
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  DIAZ  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
 
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to prohibiting  secondary
          schools  and colleges from withholding student transcripts for failure
          to pay tuition

          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 2-A to
     2  read as follows:
     3                                 ARTICLE 2-A
     4             PROHIBITION AGAINST WITHHOLDING STUDENT TRANSCRIPTS
     5  Section 20. Prohibition against withholding student transcripts.
     6    §  20.  Prohibition  against  withholding  student  transcripts. 1. No
     7  public or private elementary or secondary school or college  as  defined
     8  in section two of this chapter shall withhold a student's transcript for
     9  failure to pay past or presently due tuition.
    10    2. Willful failure to comply with the provisions of this section shall
    11  be punishable by a fine of five hundred dollars per violation.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    13  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07298-01-7

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