Bill Text: NY S00078 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires colleges, universities, professional, proprietary and graduate schools to provide written notice to all students of the institution's tuition liability policy.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S00078 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S00078-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           78

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  LIU,  ADDABBO,  JACKSON,  WEBB  -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Higher Education

        AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to requiring colleges,
          universities,  professional,  proprietary,  and  graduate  schools  to
          provide a notice of tuition liability policies

          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  212-d
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  212-d.  Notice  of  tuition  liability  policies.  1. All colleges,
     4  universities,  professional,  proprietary  and  graduate  schools  shall
     5  provide  written  notice  to  all  students of the institution's tuition
     6  liability policy. Such notice shall be provided in clear and conspicuous
     7  language and include notice of policies related to exceptions of tuition
     8  liability and process for requesting any such exception.
     9    2. Notice shall be provided to the student in both hard copy and elec-
    10  tronic form, and the student  shall  acknowledge  understanding  of  the
    11  policy as well as receipt of notice. All colleges, universities, profes-
    12  sional,  proprietary  and  graduate  schools  shall  provide  additional
    13  notices to  all  students  of  the  tuition  liability  policy  and  its
    14  exceptions throughout the academic year.
    15    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    16  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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