S 78: Requires colleges, universities, professional, proprietary and graduate schools to provide written notice to all students of the institution's tuition liability policy.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 78 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (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