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A09949 Summary:

BILL NO	A09949
SAME AS	SAME AS S06772
SPONSOR	O'Donnell
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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A09949 Actions:

BILL NO	A09949
02/27/2020	referred to higher education

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A09949 Committee Votes:

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A09949 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9949
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 27, 2020
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  O'DONNELL  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Higher 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.
                                                                   LBD07706-01-9

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