Bill Text: NY A10245 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires certain colleges and universities vet all information displayed on their websites and marketing materials to ensure the information is accurate and impartial.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-13 - referred to higher education [A10245 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A10245-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10245

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 13, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. K. Brown) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education law, in relation to requiring certain
          colleges and universities  vet  all  information  displayed  on  their
          websites and marketing materials to ensure the information is accurate
          and impartial

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 355 of the education law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 22 to read as follows:
     3    22. The state university trustees shall adopt a policy requiring  that
     4  each institution of the state university of New York vet all information
     5  displayed on their websites and marketing materials to ensure the infor-
     6  mation is accurate and impartial.
     7    §  2.  Section  6206  of  the education law is amended by adding a new
     8  subdivision 22 to read as follows:
     9    22. The board of trustees shall adopt a  policy  requiring  that  each
    10  institution  of  the  city  university  of  New York vet all information
    11  displayed on their websites and marketing materials to ensure the infor-
    12  mation is accurate and impartial.
    13    § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
    14  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.
                                                                   LBD15558-01-2
feedback