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A05400 Summary:

BILL NO	A05400
SAME AS	No Same As
SPONSOR	Raga
COSPNSR
MLTSPNSR
Amd §§6451 & 6452, Ed L
Requires the department of education create an online database of seats available for non-public and public institutions who offer college opportunity programs and provide such information to authorized high school counselors.

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A05400 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          5400
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 13, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M. of A. RAGA -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education
 
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring the  depart-
          ment  of  education  to create a database tracking college opportunity
          program seats at non-public and public institutions

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  6  of  section  6451 of the education law is
     2  renumbered subdivision 7 and a new subdivision 6 is  added  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    6.  The  commissioner  shall establish a database requiring non-public
     5  institutions transmit the number of seats such  non-public  institutions
     6  have  available  for  prospective  students relying on the provisions of
     7  this section. Such database shall be available on a website  created  by
     8  the department and shall:
     9    (a) be available to authorized high school counselors;
    10    (b)  include  each non-public institution's application guidelines and
    11  deadlines;
    12    (c) be updated every time a non-public institution reaches  a  certain
    13  threshold  of  seats  taken,  which  shall  follow  increments of twenty
    14  percent of seats taken until all such seats are filled;
    15    (d) include ease of access accommodations for those with  disabilities
    16  as well as an arrangement of interactive hyperlinks; and
    17    (e)  be  updated annually on the first day of March or at the close of
    18  each non-public institution's application deadline.
    19    § 2. Section 6452 of the education law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
    20  subdivision 6 to read as follows:
    21    6.  The  trustees  shall  establish a database requiring public insti-
    22  tutions transmit the number  of  seats  such  public  institutions  have
    23  available  for  prospective  students  relying on the provisions of this
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04136-01-5
        A. 5400                             2
 
     1  section. Such database shall be available on a website  created  by  the
     2  department and shall:
     3    (a) be available to authorized high school counselors;
     4    (b) include each public institution's application guidelines and dead-
     5  lines;
     6    (c)  be  updated  every  time  a  public institution reaches a certain
     7  threshold of seats  taken,  which  shall  follow  increments  of  twenty
     8  percent of seats taken until all such seats are filled;
     9    (d)  include ease of access accommodations for those with disabilities
    10  as well as an arrangement of interactive hyperlinks; and
    11    (e) be updated annually on the first day of March or at the  close  of
    12  each public institution's application deadline.
    13    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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