Bill Text: NY S07914 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 7914 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

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 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-05-04 - referred to higher education [S07914 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S07914-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7914

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 19, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  LIU  --  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.
                                                                   LBD14052-01-1