Bill Text: NY A09113 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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 - Dead) 2020-01-21 - referred to higher education [A09113 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A09113-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9113

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 21, 2020
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  O'DONNELL  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Higher Education

        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-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  6438-a.  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.
                                                                   LBD11893-01-9