Bill Text: NY A03669 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Defines the term "tabling" as dissemination of information and allows organizations to do tabling outside buildings on campus so long as they don't block access to or disrupt the academic use of campus buildings.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to higher education [A03669 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A03669-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3669
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 26, 2011
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Higher Education
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the right to "tabling"
         on a college campus
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  6430 of the education law is amended by adding a
    2  new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
    3    7. AS USED IN THIS SUBDIVISION, "TABLING" SHALL MEAN THE DISSEMINATION
    4  OF INFORMATION THROUGH DISPLAYING LITERATURE AND/OR SIGN UP  SHEETS  AND
    5  VERBAL  ENTICING WITH THE POSSIBLE USE OF A TABLE AND CHAIRS IN A PUBLIC
    6  PLACE. ANY CLUB OR ORGANIZATION OFFICIALLY  RECOGNIZED  BY  THE  STUDENT
    7  GOVERNMENT  OR  ADMINISTRATION  OF  A COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY SHALL NOT BE
    8  RESTRICTED IN ANY MANNER FROM TABLING BY THE EXTERIOR OF ANY BUILDING ON
    9  CAMPUS AS LONG AS THE TABLING DOES NOT PROHIBIT OR UNDULY  RESTRICT  THE
   10  ACCESS TO THE BUILDING OR DISRUPT THE ACADEMIC USES OF THE BUILDING.
   11    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD06061-01-1
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