STATE OF NEW YORK
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9683
IN ASSEMBLY
February 4, 2020
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Introduced by M. of A. FRONTUS -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to extending the tran-
script notation period for sexual violence crimes
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 6444 of the education law, as
2 added by chapter 76 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
3 6. For crimes of violence, including, but not limited to sexual
4 violence, defined as crimes that meet the reporting requirements pursu-
5 ant to the federal Clery Act established in 20 U.S.C.
6 1092(f)(1)(F)(i)(I)-(VIII), institutions shall make a notation on the
7 transcript of students found responsible after a conduct process that
8 they were "suspended after a finding of responsibility for a code of
9 conduct violation" or "expelled after a finding of responsibility for a
10 code of conduct violation." For the respondent who withdraws from the
11 institution while such conduct charges are pending, and declines to
12 complete the disciplinary process, institutions shall make a notation on
13 the transcript of such students that they "withdrew with conduct charges
14 pending." Each institution shall publish a policy on transcript
15 notations and appeals seeking removal of a transcript notation for a
16 suspension, provided that such notation shall not be removed prior to
17 [one year] two years after conclusion of the suspension, while notations
18 for expulsion shall not be removed. If a finding of responsibility is
19 vacated for any reason, any such transcript notation shall be removed.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14233-01-9
