Bill Text: NY A04578 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 4578 (Prior Session Legislation)

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) 2018-01-03 - referred to higher education [A04578 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A04578-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4578
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 3, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred 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    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03644-01-7