Bill Text: NY A03173 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits secondary schools and higher education institutions from withholding student transcripts for failure to pay tuition.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to higher education [A03173 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A03173-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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3173
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 23, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. SEPULVEDA -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to prohibiting secondary
schools and colleges from withholding student transcripts for failure
to pay tuition
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 2-A to
2 read as follows:
3 ARTICLE 2-A
4 PROHIBITION AGAINST WITHHOLDING STUDENT TRANSCRIPTS
5 SECTION 20. PROHIBITION AGAINST WITHHOLDING STUDENT TRANSCRIPTS.
6 S 20. PROHIBITION AGAINST WITHHOLDING STUDENT TRANSCRIPTS. 1. NO
7 PUBLIC OR PRIVATE ELEMENTARY OR SECONDARY SCHOOL OR COLLEGE AS DEFINED
8 IN SECTION TWO OF THIS CHAPTER SHALL WITHHOLD A STUDENT'S TRANSCRIPT FOR
9 FAILURE TO PAY PAST OR PRESENTLY DUE TUITION.
10 2. WILLFUL FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL
11 BE A CLASS A MISDEMEANOR.
12 S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
13 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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