Assembly Bill A9582

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requires colleges, universities, professional, proprietary, and graduate schools to provide a notice of tuition liability policies

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A9582 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7914
Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §212-d, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A1882, S1396

2021-A9582 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires colleges, universities, professional, proprietary and graduate schools to provide written notice to all students of the institution's tuition liability policy.

2021-A9582 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9582
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 16, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. CLARK -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation  to  requiring  colleges,
   universities,  professional,  proprietary,  and  graduate  schools  to
   provide a notice of tuition liability policies
 
   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 section 212-d
 to read as follows:
   § 212-D. NOTICE  OF  TUITION  LIABILITY  POLICIES.  1.  ALL  COLLEGES,
 UNIVERSITIES,  PROFESSIONAL,  PROPRIETARY  AND  GRADUATE  SCHOOLS  SHALL
 PROVIDE WRITTEN NOTICE TO ALL  STUDENTS  OF  THE  INSTITUTION'S  TUITION
 LIABILITY POLICY. SUCH NOTICE SHALL BE PROVIDED IN CLEAR AND CONSPICUOUS
 LANGUAGE AND INCLUDE NOTICE OF POLICIES RELATED TO EXCEPTIONS OF TUITION
 LIABILITY AND PROCESS FOR REQUESTING ANY SUCH EXCEPTION.
   2. NOTICE SHALL BE PROVIDED TO THE STUDENT IN BOTH HARD COPY AND ELEC-
 TRONIC  FORM,  AND  THE  STUDENT  SHALL ACKNOWLEDGE UNDERSTANDING OF THE
 POLICY AS WELL AS RECEIPT OF NOTICE. ALL COLLEGES, UNIVERSITIES, PROFES-
 SIONAL,  PROPRIETARY  AND  GRADUATE  SCHOOLS  SHALL  PROVIDE  ADDITIONAL
 NOTICES  TO  ALL  STUDENTS  OF  THE  TUITION  LIABILITY  POLICY  AND ITS
 EXCEPTIONS THROUGHOUT THE ACADEMIC YEAR.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14052-01-1

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