Bill Text: NY A09683 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to extending the transcript notation period for sexual violence crimes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-04 - referred to higher education [A09683 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A09683-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9683

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 4, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. FRONTUS -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Higher Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  extending  the  tran-
          script notation period for sexual violence crimes

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 6444  of  the  education  law,  as
     2  added by chapter 76 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
     3    6.  For  crimes  of  violence,  including,  but  not limited to sexual
     4  violence, defined as crimes that meet the reporting requirements  pursu-
     5  ant    to   the   federal   Clery   Act   established   in   20   U.S.C.
     6  1092(f)(1)(F)(i)(I)-(VIII), institutions shall make a  notation  on  the
     7  transcript  of  students  found responsible after a conduct process that
     8  they were "suspended after a finding of responsibility  for  a  code  of
     9  conduct  violation" or "expelled after a finding of responsibility for a
    10  code of conduct violation." For the respondent who  withdraws  from  the
    11  institution  while  such  conduct  charges  are pending, and declines to
    12  complete the disciplinary process, institutions shall make a notation on
    13  the transcript of such students that they "withdrew with conduct charges
    14  pending."  Each  institution  shall  publish  a  policy  on   transcript
    15  notations  and  appeals  seeking  removal of a transcript notation for a
    16  suspension, provided that such notation shall not be  removed  prior  to
    17  [one year] two years after conclusion of the suspension, while notations
    18  for  expulsion  shall  not be removed. If a finding of responsibility is
    19  vacated for any reason, any such transcript notation shall be removed.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14233-01-9