Bill Text: NY A02674 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Excludes illegal aliens from attending public post-secondary educational institutions; requires such educational institutions to verify the legal citizenship status of all students; requires such educational institutions to provide information regarding the attendance of suspected illegal aliens to the commissioner of education, the New York state attorney general and the United States immigration and naturalization service.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-14 - held for consideration in higher education [A02674 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A02674-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2674 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 24, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH, BRABENEC, KOLB, B. MILLER -- Multi-Spon- sored by -- M. of A. FINCH, HAWLEY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the exclusion of ille- gal aliens from attending public post-secondary educational insti- tutions 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 article 14-B 2 to read as follows: 3 ARTICLE 14-B 4 EXCLUSION OF ILLEGAL ALIENS FROM PUBLIC POST-SECONDARY 5 EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS 6 Section 695-n. Exclusion of illegal aliens from public post-secondary 7 educational institutions. 8 § 695-n. Exclusion of illegal aliens from public post-secondary educa- 9 tional institutions. 1. No public institution of post-secondary educa- 10 tion shall admit, enroll or permit the attendance of any person who is 11 not one of the following: 12 (a) a citizen of the United States; 13 (b) an alien lawfully admitted as a permanent resident; 14 (c) an alien lawfully admitted for a temporary period of time; or 15 (d) a person who is otherwise authorized under federal law to be pres- 16 ent in the United States. 17 2. Commencing with the first term or semester that begins after Janu- 18 ary first, two thousand nineteen, and on the commencement of each term 19 or semester thereafter, each public post-secondary educational institu- 20 tion shall verify the status of each person enrolled or in attendance at 21 that institution in order to ensure the enrollment or attendance only of 22 United States citizens, aliens lawfully admitted as permanent residents 23 in the United States, aliens lawfully admitted for a temporary period of EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02794-01-9A. 2674 2 1 time and persons who are otherwise authorized under federal law to be 2 present in the United States. 3 3. No later than forty-five days after the admissions officer of a 4 public post-secondary educational institution becomes aware of the 5 application, enrollment or attendance of a person determined to be, or 6 who is under reasonable suspicion of being, in the United States in 7 violation of federal immigration laws, that officer shall provide such 8 information to the commissioner, the attorney general and the United 9 States bureau of immigration and customs enforcement. Such information 10 shall also be provided to the applicant, enrollee or person admitted. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 12 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 13 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 14 tation of section one of this act on its effective date is authorized to 15 be made on or before such effective date.
