Bill Text: NY S00105 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 105 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to prohibiting colleges from denying formerly incarcerated individuals admittance to college based solely on their incarceration.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-12 - COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES [S00105 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S00105-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          105
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 5, 2011
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  Sen.  MONTGOMERY  -- 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  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
    2  to read as follows:
    3    S  6438.  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    S  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.
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