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Senate Bill S6597

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Prohibits legacy preference as eligible criteria for admission standards

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2025-S6597 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §239-c, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S8506
2023-2024: S5452

2025-S6597 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits legacy preference as eligible criteria for admission standards.

2025-S6597 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S6597 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6597
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 18, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. JACKSON, PARKER -- 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
 
   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  239-c
 to read as follows:
   §  239-C. LEGACY PREFERENCE FOR ADMISSION. NO DEGREE-GRANTING INSTITU-
 TION OF HIGHER EDUCATION SHALL GIVE PREFERENCE  TO  AN    APPLICANT  FOR
 ADMISSION TO SUCH INSTITUTION ON THE BASIS OF SUCH APPLICANT'S  FAMILIAL
 RELATIONSHIP  TO  A  PERSON  WHO HAS GRADUATED FROM SUCH INSTITUTION. AN
 INSTITUTION MAY INQUIRE ABOUT AN APPLICANT'S FAMILIAL RELATIONSHIP TO  A
 PERSON  WHO HAS GRADUATED FROM SUCH INSTITUTION AFTER AN OFFER OF ADMIS-
 SION  HAS  BEEN    ACCEPTED  BY  AN  APPLICANT  FOR THE PURPOSES OF DATA
 COLLECTION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
 the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
 addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are  authorized
 to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11123-01-5

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2025-S6597A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §239-c, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S8506
2023-2024: S5452

2025-S6597A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits legacy preference as eligible criteria for admission standards.

2025-S6597A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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