Bill Text: NY A00453 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires colleges to publish responses to the survey created by the Common Data Set Initiative, relating to admissions and financial aid process, annual expenses, academic offerings, graduation rate, student demographics, instructional faculty and class sizes, and degrees conferred, on an annual basis.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - referred to higher education [A00453 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A00453-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           453

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        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 publishing  of  common
          data sets reported by colleges

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section  609-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 609-a. Publishing of common data sets. 1. As used in this section:
     4    (a)  "Common data set" shall refer to the survey created by the Common
     5  Data Set Initiative, and  completed  by  colleges,  pertaining  to  such
     6  college's admissions and financial aid process, annual expenses, academ-
     7  ic  offerings,  graduation  rate,  student  demographics,  instructional
     8  faculty and class sizes, degrees conferred, and more.
     9    (b) "Drop-down menu" shall refer to a graphical control  element  that
    10  allows a user of a website to choose one value from a list.
    11    2.  Each college in this state shall be required to complete, publish,
    12  and prominently display such college's responses to the common data  set
    13  survey on an annual basis on such college's website.
    14    3. (a) The commissioner shall compile the responses to the common data
    15  set survey from each college in this state and publish such responses in
    16  a clear and prominent location on the department's website.
    17    (b) In compiling and publishing such responses, the commissioner shall
    18  ensure  that  a  user  of  such  website is able to select and view such
    19  responses for an individual college via a drop-down menu.
    20    (c) The commissioner shall further represent  such  responses  to  the
    21  common  data set survey on a digital statewide map that allows a user to
    22  select and view each college and such college's responses based  on  the
    23  geographic location of such college.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (d)  The commissioner shall also ensure that website users are able to
     2  find responses for individual colleges via a search function.
     3    4.  The  commissioner shall have the discretion to set civil penalties
     4  for any college which willfully violates the provisions of this section.
     5    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
     6  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
     7  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
     8  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
     9  on or before such effective date.