Bill Text: NY A09157 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes an automatic application program for state high school students into SUNY and CUNY.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-18 - print number 9157b [A09157 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09157-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9157--B
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 29, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  RODRIGUEZ  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Higher Education -- committee discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered  reprinted  as  amended  and  recommitted to said committee --
          again reported from said committee with amendments, ordered  reprinted
          as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishing an auto-
          matic application system
          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 part 6  to
     2  article 3 to read as follows:
     3                                   PART VI
     4                        AUTOMATIC APPLICATION PROGRAM
     5  Section 190. Automatic application program; established.
     6          191. Program requirements.
     7          192. Data publication.
     8          193. Program promotion.
     9          194. Rulemaking authority.
    10    § 190. Automatic application program;  established.  There  is  hereby
    11  established  an  automatic application program to be administered by the
    12  department.
    13    § 191. Program requirements. 1. The department shall promulgate stand-
    14  ards for the automatic application of graduating high school students in
    15  New York state that comply with the federal  family  educational  rights
    16  and  privacy  act.    No  personal  information  shall be shared with an
    17  external entity without  the  express  consent  from  a  student  having
    18  attained the age of eighteen or, in the case of students seventeen years
    19  of age or younger, parental consent.
    20    2.  It  shall  be  the  responsibility of the department to create and
    21  maintain a centralized academic database:
    22    (a) to provide an online account for each student in the beginning  of
    23  their  senior  year  of high school through which students may apply for
    24  admission into the state university of New York and the city  university
    25  of New York;
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13447-08-6