Senate Bill S78

2025-2026 Legislative Session

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

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Higher Education 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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2025-S78 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §212-d, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S7914
2023-2024: S1396

2025-S78 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2025-S78 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    78
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  LIU,  ADDABBO,  JACKSON,  WEBB  -- read twice and
   ordered printed, and when printed to be committed 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.
                                                            LBD00534-01-5

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