STATE OF NEW YORK
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2221
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 14, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. GIBSON -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to prohibiting colleges
from denying formerly incarcerated individuals admittance to college
based solely on their incarceration
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 section 6438
2 to read as follows:
3 § 6438. College admittance for people previously incarcerated.
4 Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no person
5 who has previously been incarcerated, shall be denied admittance to any
6 institution of higher education, based solely on such incarceration.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
8 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.
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