S12-2013 Actions

• Jan 9, 2013: REFERRED TO EDUCATION

S12-2013 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S12

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the education law, in relation to prohibiting secondary schools
and colleges from withholding student transcripts
for failure to pay tuition

PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
Allows students to obtain their academic transcript in the event
tuition has not been paid.

SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section 1 Amends the education law by adding a new Article 2-A.
Prohibits public or private educational institutions from withholding
student transcripts in the event such student has not paid tuition.
Creates a Class A misdemeanor for failure to comply with this section.

Section 2 Effective Date

EXISTING LAW:
None.

JUSTIFICATION:
As a result of the current recession, difficulties with paying tuition
have become more and more common. Whether the student is paying for
his or her own education, or parents are paying for their child's
tuition, it is the student who suffers. The problem is exacerbated in
situations when a student's transcript needs to be sent from one
school to another. Schools frequently will not release transcripts if
the tuition is not fully paid.

This bill would prohibit an educational institution from withholding a
transcript for failure to pay tuition. Failure to comply with this
provision would be a Class A misdemeanor..

PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2012: S.503  - Referred to in Education
2011: S.503  - Defeated in Education
2010: S.8493 - Referred to Rules

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None to State.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
First of November after it shall have become law.

S12-2013 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 
                                          12
 2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 I N  SENATE
 (PREFILED)
 January 9, 2013
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  DIAZ  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on 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:

 

Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new article 2-A to
 read as follows:

 ARTICLE 2-A
 PROHIBITION AGAINST WITHHOLDING STUDENT TRANSCRIPTS
 SECTION 20. PROHIBITION AGAINST WITHHOLDING STUDENT TRANSCRIPTS.
 

S  20.  PROHIBITION  AGAINST  WITHHOLDING  STUDENT  TRANSCRIPTS. 1. NO
 PUBLIC OR PRIVATE ELEMENTARY OR SECONDARY SCHOOL OR COLLEGE  AS  DEFINED
 IN SECTION TWO OF THIS CHAPTER SHALL WITHHOLD A STUDENT'S TRANSCRIPT FOR
 FAILURE TO PAY PAST OR PRESENTLY DUE TUITION.
 2. WILLFUL FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL
 BE A CLASS A MISDEMEANOR.
 

S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed
 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.
 LBD00927-01-3

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