Senate Bill S8506

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Prohibits legacy preference as eligible criteria for admission standards or for participation in state awards programs

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Higher Education Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-S8506 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8470
Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §209-b, amd §665-a, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S5452, A1378

2021-S8506 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits legacy preference as eligible criteria for admission standards or for participation in state awards programs; defines terms.

2021-S8506 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S8506 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8506
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 8, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. JACKSON -- 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  prohibiting  legacy
   preference as eligible criteria for admission standards or for partic-
   ipation in state awards programs
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section  209-b
 to read as follows:
   §  209-B. LEGACY PREFERENCE FOR ADMISSION. 1. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS
 SECTION, "LEGACY PREFERENCE"  MEANS  A  PREFERENCE  GIVEN  BY  A  PUBLIC
 COLLEGE  OR  PUBLIC  UNIVERSITY  ON THE BASIS OF AN APPLICANT'S FAMILIAL
 RELATIONSHIP TO ALUMNI OF SUCH PUBLIC COLLEGE OR PUBLIC UNIVERSITY.
   2. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER LAW, RULE OR REGULATION TO THE  CONTRARY,
 A  PUBLIC COLLEGE OR PUBLIC UNIVERSITY SHALL NOT CONSIDER A LEGACY PREF-
 ERENCE AS ELIGIBLE CRITERIA FOR ADMISSION STANDARDS; PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,
 THAT A PUBLIC COLLEGE OR PUBLIC UNIVERSITY MAY STILL INQUIRE ABOUT FAMI-
 LIAL RELATIONSHIPS TO ALUMNI IN ORDER TO COLLECT DATA.
   §  2.  Subdivision 1 of section 665-a of the education law, as amended
 by chapter 681 of the laws of 1986, is amended to read as follows:
   1. Participation agreement. No  institution  may  participate  in  the
 general,  academic  or  other  award  programs described in this article
 unless it shall have entered into a written agreement  with  the  corpo-
 ration  under  which it shall be bound to comply with all laws and rules
 applicable to such programs. The  participation  agreement  may  contain
 such  other  terms and conditions, consistent with such applicable laws,
 rules and procedures, as the president may require  in  accordance  with
 rules  adopted  for  this purpose by the board and shall be developed in
 consultation with the commissioner of education; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT
 A PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT WITH ANY INSTITUTION SHALL INCLUDE THE  CONDI-
 TION  THAT  SUCH  INSTITUTION  SHALL NOT CONSIDER A LEGACY PREFERENCE AS
 ELIGIBLE CRITERIA FOR ADMISSION STANDARDS.  FOR PURPOSES OF THIS  SUBDI-
 VISION, "LEGACY PREFERENCE" SHALL MEAN A PREFERENCE  GIVEN  BY AN INSTI-
 TUTION ON THE BASIS  OF  AN  APPLICANT'S FAMILIAL RELATIONSHIP TO ALUMNI
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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