Assembly Bill A8399

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Prohibits the granting of tuition assistance awards to any student who has knowingly engaged in certain antisemitic activities

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee


  • 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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2023-A8399 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7752
Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§666, 667, 667-a & 667-c, Ed L

2023-A8399 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts "the combating campus antisemitism act"; prohibits the granting of tuition assistance awards to any student who has knowingly engaged in promoting antisemitism in a manner that is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action, that constitutes "true threats"; makes related provisions.

2023-A8399 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8399
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             December 13, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. E. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Higher Education
 
 AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to prohibiting the grant
   of tuition assistance awards to any student who has knowingly  engaged
   in certain antisemitic activities

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Short title. This act may be known and shall  be  cited  as
 "the combating campus antisemitism act".
   §  2. Subdivision 2 of section 666 of the education law, as amended by
 chapter 947 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows:
   2. Eligible students. Tuition awards may  be  made  to  students,  who
 comply  with  the  requirements provided in subdivisions three, five and
 six of section six hundred sixty-one of this article, and  (i) are  also
 part-time   students   matriculated  in  approved  undergraduate  degree
 programs or enrolled and accepted into registered  certificate  programs
 and  (ii) if eligible to claim dependents or to be claimed as dependents
 under the tax law, whose incomes  do  not  exceed  fifty  thousand  five
 hundred fifty dollars or if ineligible whose incomes do not exceed thir-
 ty-four  thousand  two hundred fifty dollars. The continuation of eligi-
 bility for a tuition award shall require the retention of good  academic
 standing, as defined by the commissioner pursuant to article thirteen of
 this  chapter. Prior to the approval of any additional award pursuant to
 this section,  participating  institutions  shall  review  the  academic
 standing  of  all  recipients  of  awards  pursuant to this section; AND
 PROVIDED, FURTHER, THAT NO TUITION ASSISTANCE AWARD SHALL BE PROVIDED TO
 ANY STUDENT, IN ANY ACADEMIC YEAR, WHO HAS KNOWINGLY ENGAGED IN  PROMOT-
 ING  ANTISEMITISM  IN A MANNER THAT IS DIRECTED TO INCITING OR PRODUCING
 IMMINENT LAWLESS ACTION AND IS LIKELY TO INCITE OR PRODUCE SUCH  ACTION,
 THAT CONSTITUTES "TRUE THREATS," AS DEFINED BY THE UNITED STATES SUPREME
 COURT IN VIRGINIA V. BLACK (2003), OR THAT CONSTITUTES "FIGHTING WORDS,"
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13566-04-3
              

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