Bill Text: NY A02330 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits secondary schools and higher education institutions from withholding student transcripts for failure to pay tuition.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to higher education [A02330 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A02330-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2330 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 25, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. O'DONNELL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education 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: 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new article 2-A to 2 read as follows: 3 ARTICLE 2-A 4 PROHIBITION AGAINST WITHHOLDING STUDENT TRANSCRIPTS 5 Section 20. Prohibition against withholding student transcripts. 6 § 20. Prohibition against withholding student transcripts. 1. No 7 public or private elementary or secondary school or college as defined 8 in section two of this chapter shall withhold a student's transcript for 9 failure to pay past or presently due tuition. 10 2. Willful failure to comply with the provisions of this section shall 11 be punishable by a fine of five hundred dollars per violation. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 13 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. LBD03372-01-3
