STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6765 IN SENATE February 18, 2016 ___________ Introduced by Sen. LATIMER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to prohibiting alter- ations from being made to student athletic records The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 9-a of section 225 of the education law, as 2 added by chapter 443 of the laws of 1980, is amended to read as follows: 3 9-a. Knowingly and willfully make an unauthorized and false alter- 4 ation or representation of any grade, credit, honor, award or standing 5 in the permanent record, athletic record or transcript of any student 6 with respect to a school or college under the supervision of the 7 regents, the commissioner, or the university of the state of New York. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14117-02-6