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S78 • 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
John Liu
Last action
2026-05-04
Official status
Passed Assembly
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.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2026-05-04 Assembly

    SUBSTITUTED FOR A705

  2. 2026-05-04 Assembly

    ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.392

  3. 2026-05-04 Assembly

    PASSED ASSEMBLY

  4. 2026-05-04 Assembly

    RETURNED TO SENATE

  5. 2026-02-25 Senate

    PASSED SENATE

  6. 2026-02-25 Senate

    DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

  7. 2026-02-25 Assembly

    REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION

  8. 2026-02-24 Senate

    ADVANCED TO THIRD READING

  9. 2026-02-11 Senate

    2ND REPORT CAL.

  10. 2026-02-10 Senate

    1ST REPORT CAL.307

  11. 2026-01-07 Assembly

    DIED IN ASSEMBLY

  12. 2026-01-07 Assembly

    RETURNED TO SENATE

  13. 2026-01-07 Senate

    REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION

  14. 2025-02-11 Senate

    PASSED SENATE

  15. 2025-02-11 Senate

    DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

  16. 2025-02-11 Assembly

    REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION

  17. 2025-02-05 Senate

    ADVANCED TO THIRD READING

  18. 2025-02-04 Senate

    2ND REPORT CAL.

  19. 2025-02-03 Senate

    1ST REPORT CAL.221

  20. 2025-01-08 Senate

    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
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           78

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                       (PREFILED)

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  LIU,  ADDABBO,  JACKSON,  WEBB  -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed 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