Bill Text: NY A01378 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Prohibits legacy preference as eligible criteria for admission standards.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-14 - print number 1378a [A01378 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01378-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         1378--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 17, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. EPSTEIN, SEAWRIGHT, GIBBS, RAMOS, REYES, ARDILA,
          DINOWITZ, SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the  Committee  on
          Higher  Education  -- recommitted to the Committee on Higher Education
          in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2  --  committee  discharged,
          bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as amended and recommitted to said
          committee

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in  relation  to  prohibiting  legacy
          preference as eligible criteria for admission standards

          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  239-c
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  239-c. Legacy preference for admission. No degree-granting institu-
     4  tion of higher education shall give preference  to  an    applicant  for
     5  admission to such institution on the basis of such applicant's  familial
     6  relationship  to  a  person  who has graduated from such institution. An
     7  institution may inquire about an applicant's familial relationship to  a
     8  person  who has graduated from such institution after an offer of admis-
     9  sion  has  been    accepted  by  an  applicant  for the purposes of data
    10  collection.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
    12  the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
    13  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
    14  for the implementation of this act on its effective date are  authorized
    15  to be made and completed on or before such effective date.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03385-02-4