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A705 • 2025

Requires colleges, universities, professional, proprietary, and graduate schools to provide a notice of tuition liability policies

Requires colleges, universities, professional, proprietary, and graduate schools to provide a notice of tuition liability policies

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Sponsor
Sarah Clark
Last action
2026-05-04
Official status
Assembly Floor Calendar
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires colleges, universities, professional, proprietary, and graduate schools to provide a notice of tuition liability policies

Requires colleges, universities, professional, proprietary, and graduate schools to provide a notice of tuition liability policies Requires colleges, universities, professional, proprietary and graduate schools to provide written notice to all students of the institution's tuition liability policy.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires colleges, universities, professional, proprietary, and graduate schools to provide a notice of tuition liability policies Requires colleges, universities, professional, proprietary and graduate schools to provide written notice to all students of the institution's tuition liability policy.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-05-04 Assembly

    SUBSTITUTED BY S78

  2. 2026-04-30 Assembly

    ADVANCED TO THIRD READING CAL.392

  3. 2026-04-28 Assembly

    REPORTED

  4. 2026-03-13 Assembly

    AMEND BY RESTORING TO ORIGINAL PRINT 705

  5. 2026-01-07 Assembly

    REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS

  6. 2025-05-28 Assembly

    REPORTED REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS

  7. 2025-05-21 Assembly

    AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO HIGHER EDUCATION

  8. 2025-05-21 Assembly

    PRINT NUMBER 705A

  9. 2025-01-08 Assembly

    REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION

Official Summary Text

Requires colleges, universities, professional, proprietary, and graduate schools to provide a notice of tuition liability policies
Requires colleges, universities, professional, proprietary and graduate schools to provide written notice to all students of the institution's tuition liability policy.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                           705

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                       (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  requiring  colleges,
          universities,  professional,  proprietary,  and  graduate  schools  to
          provide a notice of tuition liability policies

          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 212-d
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 212-D. NOTICE  OF  TUITION  LIABILITY  POLICIES.  1.  ALL  COLLEGES,
     4  UNIVERSITIES,  PROFESSIONAL,  PROPRIETARY  AND  GRADUATE  SCHOOLS  SHALL
     5  PROVIDE WRITTEN NOTICE TO ALL  STUDENTS  OF  THE  INSTITUTION'S  TUITION
     6  LIABILITY POLICY. SUCH NOTICE SHALL BE PROVIDED IN CLEAR AND CONSPICUOUS
     7  LANGUAGE AND INCLUDE NOTICE OF POLICIES RELATED TO EXCEPTIONS OF TUITION
     8  LIABILITY AND PROCESS FOR REQUESTING ANY SUCH EXCEPTION.
     9    2. NOTICE SHALL BE PROVIDED TO THE STUDENT IN BOTH HARD COPY AND ELEC-
    10  TRONIC  FORM,  AND  THE  STUDENT  SHALL ACKNOWLEDGE UNDERSTANDING OF THE
    11  POLICY AS WELL AS RECEIPT OF NOTICE. ALL COLLEGES, UNIVERSITIES, PROFES-
    12  SIONAL,  PROPRIETARY  AND  GRADUATE  SCHOOLS  SHALL  PROVIDE  ADDITIONAL
    13  NOTICES  TO  ALL  STUDENTS  OF  THE  TUITION  LIABILITY  POLICY  AND ITS
    14  EXCEPTIONS THROUGHOUT THE ACADEMIC YEAR.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    16  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00534-01-5