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Senate Bill S8493
2009-2010 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Rules Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2009-S8493 (ACTIVE) - Details
2009-S8493 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S8493
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the education law, in relation to prohibiting secondary
schools and colleges from withholding student transcripts for failure to
pay tuition
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
Allows students to obtain their academic transcript in the event tuition
has not been paid.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section 1 Amends the education law by adding a new Article 2-A to
prohibit public or private educational institutions from withholding
student transcripts in the event such student has not paid tuition.
Section 2 Creates a Class A misdemeanor for failure to comply with this
section.
JUSTIFICATION:
As a result of the current recession, difficulties with paying tuition
have become more and more common. Whether the student is paying for his
or her own education, or parents are paying for their child's tuition,
it is the student who suffers. The problem is exacerbated in situations
when a student's transcript needs to be sent from one school to another.
Schools frequently will not release transcripts if the tuition is not
2009-S8493 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8493
I N S E N A T E
September 24, 2010
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Introduced by Sen. DIAZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
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:
Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new article 2-A to
read as follows:
ARTICLE 2-A
PROHIBITION AGAINST WITHHOLDING STUDENT TRANSCRIPTS
SECTION 20. PROHIBITION AGAINST WITHHOLDING STUDENT TRANSCRIPTS.
S 20. PROHIBITION AGAINST WITHHOLDING STUDENT TRANSCRIPTS. 1. NO
PUBLIC OR PRIVATE ELEMENTARY OR SECONDARY SCHOOL OR COLLEGE AS DEFINED
IN SECTION TWO OF THIS CHAPTER SHALL WITHHOLD A STUDENT'S TRANSCRIPT FOR
FAILURE TO PAY PAST OR PRESENTLY DUE TUITION.
2. WILLFUL FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL
BE A CLASS A MISDEMEANOR.
S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
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.
LBD18159-01-0
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