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Assembly Bill A5400

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires the department of education create an online database of seats available for non-public and public institutions who offer college opportunity programs

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2025-A5400 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§6451 & 6452, Ed L

2025-A5400 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the department of education create an online database of seats available for non-public and public institutions who offer college opportunity programs and provide such information to authorized high school counselors.

2025-A5400 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5400
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 13, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. RAGA -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring the  depart-
   ment  of  education  to create a database tracking college opportunity
   program seats at non-public and public institutions

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  6  of  section  6451 of the education law is
 renumbered subdivision 7 and a new subdivision 6 is  added  to  read  as
 follows:
   6.  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL ESTABLISH A DATABASE REQUIRING NON-PUBLIC
 INSTITUTIONS TRANSMIT THE NUMBER OF SEATS SUCH  NON-PUBLIC  INSTITUTIONS
 HAVE  AVAILABLE  FOR  PROSPECTIVE  STUDENTS RELYING ON THE PROVISIONS OF
 THIS SECTION. SUCH DATABASE SHALL BE AVAILABLE ON A WEBSITE  CREATED  BY
 THE DEPARTMENT AND SHALL:
   (A) BE AVAILABLE TO AUTHORIZED HIGH SCHOOL COUNSELORS;
   (B)  INCLUDE  EACH NON-PUBLIC INSTITUTION'S APPLICATION GUIDELINES AND
 DEADLINES;
   (C) BE UPDATED EVERY TIME A NON-PUBLIC INSTITUTION REACHES  A  CERTAIN
 THRESHOLD  OF  SEATS  TAKEN,  WHICH  SHALL  FOLLOW  INCREMENTS OF TWENTY
 PERCENT OF SEATS TAKEN UNTIL ALL SUCH SEATS ARE FILLED;
   (D) INCLUDE EASE OF ACCESS ACCOMMODATIONS FOR THOSE WITH  DISABILITIES
 AS WELL AS AN ARRANGEMENT OF INTERACTIVE HYPERLINKS; AND
   (E)  BE  UPDATED ANNUALLY ON THE FIRST DAY OF MARCH OR AT THE CLOSE OF
 EACH NON-PUBLIC INSTITUTION'S APPLICATION DEADLINE.
   § 2. Section 6452 of the education law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
 subdivision 6 to read as follows:
   6.  THE  TRUSTEES  SHALL  ESTABLISH A DATABASE REQUIRING PUBLIC INSTI-
 TUTIONS TRANSMIT THE NUMBER  OF  SEATS  SUCH  PUBLIC  INSTITUTIONS  HAVE
 AVAILABLE  FOR  PROSPECTIVE  STUDENTS  RELYING ON THE PROVISIONS OF THIS
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04136-01-5
 A. 5400                             2

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