What's happening
This bill prohibits New York colleges from inquiring about students' specific immigration status except when required by law or for tuition or financial aid eligibility.
Why it matters
Protects student privacy by restricting colleges from collecting or documenting detailed immigration information except when absolutely necessary. , reducing fear of exposure and potential targeting among immigrant students.
Prevents discrimination and profiling based on immigration status or nationality. by barring institutions from asking about lawful status, refugee status, or country of origin, except where explicitly required for legal or financial reasons.
Mandates statewide standards for compliance. , ensuring all public colleges and universities in New York follow the same practices regarding student immigration inquiries, thereby promoting consistency and safeguarding rights across institutions.
Could increase access to higher education for undocumented and immigrant students. who might otherwise avoid applying due to concerns about how their information could be used or shared.
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Protect Student Immigration Privacy
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Sponsors
Assembly Member · Assembly District 25
7 Co-sponsors
2 Multi-sponsors
History
- Print number 5273a
- Amend and recommit to higher education
- Referred to higher education
- Referred to higher education
Companion bill
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Protect Student Immigration Privacy
In Senate Committee · Higher Education · Sponsor Toby Ann Stavisky
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STATE OF NEW YORK
5273--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 8, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. ROZIC, BLAKE, D'URSO, JEAN-PIERRE, WEPRIN, CRES- PO, SIMON, HYNDMAN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CAHILL, HEVESI -read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Higher Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to immigration status of registered students
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 355-d to read as follows:
§ 355-d. Immigration status of registered students. 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, no employee or officer of the university shall determine the specific details of a student's immigration status except when required by federal law, pursuant to a court order or as required in connection with tuition or financial aid eligibility.
2. The board of trustees shall promulgate standards for all colleges and universities within the system to ensure that a student shall not be asked any questions on immigration status other than any required determination as required by subdivision one of this section that the student is an immigrant. In no case shall a student be required to provide any information on a student's lawful immigration status, status as a refugee, or status as an immigrant from any specific nation.
§ 2. The education law is amended by adding a new section 6206-a to read as follows:
§ 6206-a. Immigration status of registered students. 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, no employee or officer of the university shall determine the specific details of a student's immigration status except when required by federal law, pursuant to a court
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order or as required in connection with tuition or financial aid eligibility.
2. The board of regents shall promulgate standards for all colleges and universities within the system to ensure that a student shall not be asked any questions on immigration status other than any required determination as required by subdivision one of this section that the student is an immigrant. In no case shall a student be required to provide any information on a student's lawful immigration status, status as a refugee, or status as an immigrant from any specific nation.
§ 3. Severability. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this act shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid and after exhaustion of all further judicial review the judgment shall not be deemed to affect, impair or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this act directly involved in the controversy in which the judgement shall have been rendered.
§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
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