Bill Text: NY S00012 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Prohibits secondary schools and higher education institutions from withholding student transcripts for failure to pay tuition.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S00012 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S00012-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          12
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  Sen.  DIAZ  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to prohibiting  secondary
         schools  and colleges from withholding student transcripts for failure
         to pay tuition
         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 article 2-A to
    2  read as follows:
    3                                 ARTICLE 2-A
    4             PROHIBITION AGAINST WITHHOLDING STUDENT TRANSCRIPTS
    5  SECTION 20. PROHIBITION AGAINST WITHHOLDING STUDENT TRANSCRIPTS.
    6    S  20.  PROHIBITION  AGAINST  WITHHOLDING  STUDENT  TRANSCRIPTS. 1. NO
    7  PUBLIC OR PRIVATE ELEMENTARY OR SECONDARY SCHOOL OR COLLEGE  AS  DEFINED
    8  IN SECTION TWO OF THIS CHAPTER SHALL WITHHOLD A STUDENT'S TRANSCRIPT FOR
    9  FAILURE TO PAY PAST OR PRESENTLY DUE TUITION.
   10    2. WILLFUL FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL
   11  BE A CLASS A MISDEMEANOR.
   12    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
   13  ing 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.
                                                                  LBD00927-01-3
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