Prohibits funding for SUNY, CUNY or community colleges which, directly or indirectly, permit terrorist organizations on campus; provides that the state university trustees adopt rules and regulations that any student group or student organization that receives funding from the state university of New York that directly or indirectly promotes, encourages, advocates, or permits any terrorist advocacy or activities on campuses, shall be ineligible for funding, including funding from student activity fee proceeds.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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722
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. RHOADS, BORRELLO, CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK, MARTINS,
MATTERA, MURRAY, OBERACKER, ORTT, PALUMBO, ROLISON, WEBER, WEIK --
read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
the Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to prohibiting funding of
any state university of New York, city university of New York or
community college if such institutions permit certain organizations on
campus
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 355 of the education law is amended by adding two
2 new subdivisions 22 and 23 to read as follows:
3 22. The state university trustees shall ensure that no financial aid
4 shall be granted to any institution of the state university of New York
5 which, directly or indirectly, permits organizations designated as
6 terrorist organizations pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1189.
7 23. The state university trustees shall adopt rules and regulations
8 that any student group or student organization that receives funding
9 from the state university of New York and that directly or indirectly
10 promotes, encourages, advocates, or permits any terrorist advocacy or
11 activities on campus, shall be ineligible for funding, including funding
12 from student activity fee proceeds.
13 § 2. Paragraph 1 of subdivision A of section 6221 of the education
14 law, as amended by chapter 554 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read
15 as follows:
16 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all expenditures for
17 the senior college programs and services of the city university of New
18 York shall continue to be pre-financed from city of New York funds;
19 provided, however, any senior college which, directly or indirectly,
20 permits organizations designated as terrorist organizations pursuant to
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 8 U.S.C. § 1189 shall not receive any funding from the city. No state
2 student group or student organization that receives funding from the
3 city university of New York and that directly or indirectly promotes,
4 encourages, advocates, or permits any terrorist advocacy or activities
5 on campus, shall be ineligible for funding, including funding from
6 student activity fee proceeds. The comptroller of the state of New York
7 may establish a separate fund for the receipt and deposit of such pre-
8 financing funds from the city of New York pursuant to this subdivision,
9 and all other monies deemed appropriate by the state comptroller and the
10 state director of the budget, except that all monies presently required
11 by law to be paid directly to the city university construction fund
12 shall continue to be so paid. All monies appropriated for such senior
13 college programs and services, or derived from other sources in the
14 course of the administration thereof, shall be expended upon vouchers
15 approved by the chancellor of the city university, as chief administra-
16 tive officer of the city university, or by such authority or authorities
17 in the city university as shall be designated by the chancellor by a
18 rule or written direction filed with the comptroller, when and in the
19 manner authorized by the board of trustees. No monies appropriated for
20 such senior college programs and services, or derived from other sources
21 in the course of the administration thereof, shall be expended until a
22 certificate of the aggregate funds available for expenditure pursuant to
23 section forty-nine of the state finance law has been approved by the
24 director of the budget and copies thereof filed with the state comp-
25 troller, the [chairman] chair of the senate finance committee and the
26 [chairman] chair of the assembly ways and means committee. In regard to
27 the city university, the director of the budget shall exercise the
28 authority granted under section forty-nine of the state finance law in
29 accordance with the provisions of paragraph b of subdivision four of
30 section three hundred fifty-five of this chapter.
31 § 3. Subdivision 1 of section 6304 of the education law is amended by
32 adding two new paragraphs a-1 and a-2 to read as follows:
33 a-1. No state financial aid issued pursuant to paragraph a of this
34 subdivision shall be granted to any community college which, directly or
35 indirectly, permits organizations designated as terrorist organizations
36 pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1189.
37 a-2. The state university trustees shall adopt rules and regulations
38 that any student group or student organization that receives funding
39 from the state university of New York and that directly or indirectly
40 promotes, encourages, advocates, or permits any terrorist advocacy or
41 activities on campus, shall be ineligible for funding, including funding
42 from student activity fee proceeds.
43 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to school
44 years commencing on and after July 1, 2026.
