S 3824: Prohibits elementary and secondary schools from withholding student transcripts for failure to pay tuition.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3824 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 30, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- 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: 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new article 2-A to 2 read as follows: 3 ARTICLE 2-A 4 PROHIBITION AGAINST WITHHOLDING STUDENT TRANSCRIPTS 5 Section 20. Prohibition against withholding student transcripts. 6 § 20. Prohibition against withholding student transcripts. 1. No 7 public or private elementary or secondary school or college as defined 8 in section two of this chapter shall withhold a student's transcript for 9 failure to pay past or presently due tuition. 10 2. Willful failure to comply with the provisions of this section shall 11 be punishable by a fine of five hundred dollars per violation. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 13 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. LBD08315-01-5