Bill Text: NY A02335 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to prohibiting colleges from denying formerly incarcerated individuals admittance to college based solely on their incarceration.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-07 - print number 2335a [A02335 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A02335-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2335--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 25, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. O'DONNELL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education -- recommitted to the Committee on High- er 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 colleges from denying formerly incarcerated individuals admittance to college based solely on their incarceration 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 6438-d 2 to read as follows: 3 § 6438-d. College admittance for people previously incarcerated. 4 Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no person 5 who has previously been incarcerated, shall be denied admittance to any 6 institution of higher education, based solely on such incarceration. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding 8 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. LBD03370-03-4
