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Senate Passes Bill To Curb Cheating On Academic Papers

Posted by Phil Boyle on Tuesday, April 30th, 2013

Measure Deters Internet-Based Services from Providing Dissertations and Other Educational Papers for Sale    The New York State Senate today passed a bill to prevent students from cheating by prohibiting the sale or purchase of dissertations, term papers, and similar academic documents online. The legislation (S2405) would prevent academic fraud by discouraging Internet-based services from selling educational papers to students.Most academic institutions have plagiarism policies in place whereby students who engage in such activity are punished. However, currently there is no New York State law that deters online entities from offering educational papers for sale.

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Senator Boyle Sponsors Legislation Allowing “Stop Arm” Cameras On School Buses

Posted by Phil Boyle on Thursday, May 16th, 2013

 

Law Uses Latest Technologies to Protect Schoolchildren

Albany, NY - Senator Phil Boyle (R- Bay Shore) has sponsored legislation (S.5028) to keep our children safe when getting on and off of the school bus each day.  The School Bus Safety Act allows school districts and school bus contractors to install school bus safety cameras to capture license plate numbers of vehicles that do not stop when the stop arm of the school bus is extended.

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