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                                    420
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 6, 2021
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 Introduced  by  M. of A. ROZIC, HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to prohibit the use of state aid by colleges and universities for
   certain academic institutions
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Legislative intent. The legislature hereby finds that it is
 beneficial to students of this state to have access to an education that
 is  not  bound by borders and to have the opportunity to obtain a global
 education. The legislature further finds that it is important  that  New
 York  state  undertake  efforts to ensure that its students succeed in a
 world that is continually becoming more interdependent and  diverse  and
 further  that  students  have  access  to international higher education
 institutions.  A global education allows students  to  connect,  compete
 and  cooperate  with  their  peers around the world. Therefore it is the
 policy of the state  that  colleges  not  use  state  funds  to  support
 boycotts of countries, or higher education institutions located in coun-
 tries, that host higher education institutions chartered by the board of
 regents of the university of the state of New York.
   § 2. 1. For purposes of this section the following shall apply:
   (a)  the term "academic entity" shall mean any organization comprising
 colleges, universities or professors that promotes or supports  academia
 in the United States and abroad.
   (b)  the  term  "college"  shall have the same meaning as such term is
 defined in subdivision 2 of section 2 of the education law.
   (c) the term "host country" shall mean those  countries  that  host  a
 higher  education  institution  chartered by the board of regents of the
 university of the state of New York.
   2. No college in this state may use state  aid  provided  directly  to
 such  college  to: fund an academic entity, provide funds for membership

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00479-01-1

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 in an academic entity or fund travel or  lodging  for  any  employee  to
 attend  any  meeting of such academic entity if such entity has issued a
 public resolution or other official statement or undertaken an  official
 action  boycotting  a  host  country  or  higher  education institutions
 located in such country.
   3. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, no college shall be eligi-
 ble for state aid during the academic  year  that  such  college  is  in
 violation of subdivision two of this section.
   4. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any college:
   (a)  when  such  college is located in a country that is determined by
 the United States secretary of state to be a state sponsor of terrorism;
   (b) when such boycott is connected with a labor dispute; or
   (c) when such boycott  is  for  the  purpose  of  protesting  unlawful
 discriminatory practices as determined by the laws, rules or regulations
 of this state.
   5.  Nothing in this section shall limit the attendance by any employee
 of a college at any event of an academic entity  that  boycotts  a  host
 country  or  higher  education  institutions located in such country and
 attendance at meetings of any such entity  shall  not  be  used  by  the
 college with regard to employment decisions.
   §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.