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                                         4846
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 9, 2015
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A. ENGLEBRIGHT -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
         COLTON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the right to "tabling"
         on a college campus
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  6430 of the education law is amended by adding a
    2  new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
    3    7. AS USED IN THIS SUBDIVISION, "TABLING" SHALL MEAN THE DISSEMINATION
    4  OF INFORMATION THROUGH DISPLAYING LITERATURE AND/OR SIGN UP  SHEETS  AND
    5  VERBAL  ENTICING WITH THE POSSIBLE USE OF A TABLE AND CHAIRS IN A PUBLIC
    6  PLACE. ANY CLUB OR ORGANIZATION OFFICIALLY  RECOGNIZED  BY  THE  STUDENT
    7  GOVERNMENT  OR  ADMINISTRATION  OF  A COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY SHALL NOT BE
    8  RESTRICTED IN ANY MANNER FROM TABLING BY THE EXTERIOR OF ANY BUILDING ON
    9  CAMPUS AS LONG AS THE TABLING DOES NOT PROHIBIT OR UNDULY  RESTRICT  THE
   10  ACCESS TO THE BUILDING OR DISRUPT THE ACADEMIC USES OF THE BUILDING.
   11    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD04920-01-5