Bill Text: NY A01946 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits secondary schools and higher education institutions from withholding student transcripts for failure to pay tuition.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-30 - enacting clause stricken [A01946 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A01946-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1946
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 17, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SEPULVEDA,  SOLAGES, COLTON, GUNTHER, SIMON,
          MOSLEY, GOTTFRIED, BLAKE, JAFFEE,  HOOPER,  RICHARDSON,  COOK,  STECK,
          PALUMBO  --  Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M. of A. BARRON -- 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.
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