Bill Text: NY S02550 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Mandates that no employee or officer of the university shall determine the specific details of a student's immigration status except when required by federal law, pursuant to a court order or as required in connection with tuition or financial aid eligibility.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-03-13 - PRINT NUMBER 2550A [S02550 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S02550-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2550--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 28, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. STAVISKY, BIAGGI, KRUEGER, MONTGOMERY, MYRIE, RAMOS, SERRANO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Higher Education in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to immigration status of registered students 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 355-d 2 to read as follows: 3 § 355-d. Immigration status of registered students. 1. Notwithstand- 4 ing any provision of law to the contrary, no employee or officer of the 5 university shall determine the specific details of a student's immi- 6 gration status except when required by federal law, pursuant to a court 7 order or as required in connection with tuition or financial aid eligi- 8 bility. 9 2. The board of trustees shall promulgate standards for all colleges 10 and universities within the system to ensure that a student shall not be 11 asked any questions on immigration status other than any required deter- 12 mination as required by subdivision one of this section that the student 13 is an immigrant. In no case shall a student be required to provide any 14 information on a student's lawful immigration status, status as a refu- 15 gee, or status as an immigrant from any specific nation. 16 § 2. The education law is amended by adding a new section 6206-a to 17 read as follows: 18 § 6206-a. Immigration status of registered students. 1. Notwithstand- 19 ing any provision of law to the contrary, no employee or officer of the 20 university shall determine the specific details of a student's immi- 21 gration status except when required by federal law, pursuant to a court EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01133-04-0S. 2550--A 2 1 order or as required in connection with tuition or financial aid eligi- 2 bility. 3 2. The board of regents shall promulgate standards for all colleges 4 and universities within the system to ensure that a student shall not be 5 asked any questions on immigration status other than any required deter- 6 mination as required by subdivision one of this section that the student 7 is an immigrant. In no case shall a student be required to provide any 8 information on a student's lawful immigration status, status as a refu- 9 gee, or status as an immigrant from any specific nation. 10 § 3. Severability. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part 11 of this act shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to 12 be invalid and after exhaustion of all further judicial review the judg- 13 ment shall not be deemed to affect, impair or invalidate the remainder 14 thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, 15 paragraph, section or part of this act directly involved in the contro- 16 versy in which the judgement shall have been rendered. 17 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
