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S01916 Summary:

BILL NO	S01916
SAME AS	SAME AS A02330
SPONSOR	SEPULVEDA
COSPNSR	COMRIE, FERNANDEZ, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, RIVERA
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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S01916 Actions:

BILL NO	S01916
01/17/2023	REFERRED TO EDUCATION
01/03/2024	REFERRED TO EDUCATION

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S01916 Committee Votes:

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S01916 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          1916
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 17, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on 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.
                                                                   LBD03372-01-3

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