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S00068 Summary:

BILL NOS00068A

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SAME ASSAME AS A08064-A

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SPONSORKAVANAGH

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COSPNSRBRISPORT, BROUK, CLEARE, COMRIE, COONEY, FERNANDEZ, GONZALEZ, HARCKHAM, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, JACKSON,
 MAY, O'MARA, RAMOS, RIVERA, SALAZAR, SEPULVEDA, STAVISKY

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MLTSPNSR

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Add Art 18 §§860 - 864, Ed L

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Enacts the student journalist education act to protect student speech at educational institutions unless such speech is libelous, an invasion of privacy, or incites students to commit an unlawful act, violate school policies, or to materially and substantially disrupt the orderly operation of the school.

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BILL NOS00068A

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO EDUCATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO EDUCATION

04/02/2026AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO EDUCATION

04/02/2026PRINT NUMBER 68A

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 68--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
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 Introduced by Sens. KAVANAGH, BRISPORT, BROUK, CLEARE, COMRIE, COONEY,
 FERNANDEZ, GONZALEZ, HARCKHAM, JACKSON, MAY, O'MARA, RAMOS, RIVERA,
 SALAZAR, SEPULVEDA, STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and
 when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education -- recom-
 mitted to the Committee on Education in accordance with Senate Rule 6,
 sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
 amended and recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to enacting the student
 journalism education act

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new article 18 to
 2 read as follows:
 3 ARTICLE 18
 4 STUDENT JOURNALISM EDUCATION ACT
 5 Section 860. Short title.
 6 861. Definitions.
 7 862. Student journalism education principals.
 8 863. Exemptions.
 9 864. Liability.
 10 § 860. Short title. This article shall be known and may be cited as
 11 the "student journalism education act".
 12 § 861. Definitions. For the purposes of this article the following
 13 terms shall have the following meanings:
 14 1. "Educational institution" means a public high school.
 15 2. "School-sponsored media" means any material that is prepared, writ-
 16 ten, published, or broadcast by a student journalist at an educational
 17 institution, distributed or generally made available to members of the
 18 student body, and prepared under the direction of a student media advi-
 19 sor. "School-sponsored media" shall not include media intended for

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00278-05-5

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 1 distribution or transmission solely in the classroom in which the media
 2 is produced.
 3 3. "Student journalist" means a student enrolled in an educational
 4 institution who gathers, compiles, writes, edits, photographs, records,
 5 or prepares information for dissemination in school-sponsored media.
 6 4. "Student media advisor" means an individual employed, appointed, or
 7 designated by an educational institution to supervise or provide
 8 instruction relating to school-sponsored media.
 9 § 862. Student journalism education principals. 1. Except as other-
 10 wise provided in section eight hundred sixty-three of this article, a
 11 student journalist shall have the right to exercise free speech and of
 12 the press in school-sponsored media, regardless of whether the media is
 13 supported financially by the educational institution or by use of the
 14 facilities of an educational institution or produced in conjunction with
 15 a class in which the student is enrolled.
 16 2. Subject to section eight hundred sixty-three of this article, the
 17 appropriate student journalist shall be responsible for determining the
 18 news, opinion, and feature content of school-sponsored media.
 19 3. Nothing in this section shall preclude a student media advisor from
 20 teaching professional standards of English and journalism to student
 21 journalists or from grading the performance of a student in accord