Bill Text: NY S03351 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Defines the term "tabling" as dissemination of information and allows organizations to do tabling outside buildings on campus so long as they don't block access to or disrupt the academic use of campus buildings.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S03351 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-S03351-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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3351
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
February 17, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. STAVISKY -- 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 the right to "tabling"
on a college campus
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Section 6430 of the education law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
3 7. AS USED IN THIS SUBDIVISION, "TABLING" SHALL MEAN THE DISSEMINATION
4 OF INFORMATION THROUGH DISPLAYING LITERATURE AND/OR SIGN UP SHEETS AND
5 VERBAL ENTICING WITH THE POSSIBLE USE OF A TABLE AND CHAIRS IN A PUBLIC
6 PLACE. ANY CLUB OR ORGANIZATION OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZED BY THE STUDENT
7 GOVERNMENT OR ADMINISTRATION OF A COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY SHALL NOT BE
8 RESTRICTED IN ANY MANNER FROM TABLING BY THE EXTERIOR OF ANY BUILDING ON
9 CAMPUS AS LONG AS THE TABLING DOES NOT PROHIBIT OR UNDULY RESTRICT THE
10 ACCESS TO THE BUILDING OR DISRUPT THE ACADEMIC USES OF THE BUILDING.
11 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06061-01-1
