Bill Text: NY S06561 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that colleges shall annually notify parents of certain rights under the federal family educational rights and privacy act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-26 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S06561 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06561-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6561
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 26, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sen. LAVALLE -- 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  notification  of
          certain  parental  rights  under the federal family educational rights
          and privacy act
          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 225-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 225-a. Parental notification of certain rights.  1.  Colleges  shall
     4  notify parents annually of their rights under 20 U.S.C. § 1232g, includ-
     5  ing, but not limited to, the right of a student eighteen years of age or
     6  older  to  designate a parent or guardian as someone who can request the
     7  student's records from the college.
     8    2.  Colleges shall notify parents of their rights under  20  U.S.C.  §
     9  1232g before the start of the academic year.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13832-01-6