A11091 • 2025

Eliminates fees for receiving a copy of a high school equivalency diploma

Education

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Sponsor: John Zaccaro Jr.
Last action: 2026-04-24
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Eliminates fees for receiving a copy of a high school equivalency diploma

Eliminates fees for receiving a copy of a high school equivalency diploma Eliminates fees for receiving a copy of a high school equivalency diploma and/or transcript.

What This Bill Does

Eliminates fees for receiving a copy of a high school equivalency diploma Eliminates fees for receiving a copy of a high school equivalency diploma and/or transcript.

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Bill History

2026-04-24 Assembly
REFERRED TO EDUCATION

Official Summary Text

Eliminates fees for receiving a copy of a high school equivalency diploma
Eliminates fees for receiving a copy of a high school equivalency diploma and/or transcript.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          11091

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                     April 24, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. ZACCARO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to eliminating  fees  for
          the  provisions  of  transcripts for recipients of a general education
          diploma or high school equivalency diploma

          THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section  1.  Section 317 of the education law, as added by chapter 170
     2  of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 317. General education development  exam;  HIGH  SCHOOL  EQUIVALENCY
     4  DIPLOMA.    1.  Notwithstanding  any  provision  of law, no fee shall be
     5  established for admission to the general education development exam.
     6    2. NO FEE SHALL BE CHARGED FOR PROVIDING TRANSCRIPTS OR PROOF OF AWARD
     7  OF A HIGH SCHOOL EQUIVALENCY DIPLOMA.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
     9  have become a law.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15570-01-6