New York S 1954: Prohibits the granting of tuition assistance awards to any student who has knowingly engaged in certain antisemitic activities

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S01954 Summary:

BILL NOS01954 

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SAME ASSAME AS A04772

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SPONSORWEBER

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COSPNSRCANZONERI-FITZPATRICK, CHAN, GRIFFO, MARTINS, MATTERA, OBERACKER, PALUMBO, RHOADS, ROLISON, TEDISCO

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§666, 667, 667-a & 667-c, Ed L

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Enacts "the combating campus antisemitism act"; prohibits the granting of tuition assistance awards to any student who has knowingly engaged in promoting antisemitism in a manner that is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action, that constitutes "true threats"; makes related provisions.

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BILL NOS01954 

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01/14/2025REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1954

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 14, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. WEBER, CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK, GRIFFO, MARTINS, MATT-
 ERA, OBERACKER, PALUMBO, RHOADS, ROLISON, TEDISCO -- 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 the grant
 of tuition assistance awards to any student who has knowingly engaged
 in certain antisemitic activities

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

 1 Section 1. Short title. This act may be known and shall be cited as
 2 "the combating campus antisemitism act".
 3 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 666 of the education law, as amended by
 4 chapter 947 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows:
 5 2. Eligible students. Tuition awards may be made to students, who
 6 comply with the requirements provided in subdivisions three, five and
 7 six of section six hundred sixty-one of this article, and (i) are also
 8 part-time students matriculated in approved undergraduate degree
 9 programs or enrolled and accepted into registered certificate programs
 10 and (ii) if eligible to claim dependents or to be claimed as dependents
 11 under the tax law, whose incomes do not exceed fifty thousand five
 12 hundred fifty dollars or if ineligible whose incomes do not exceed thir-
 13 ty-four thousand two hundred fifty dollars. The continuation of eligi-
 14 bility for a tuition award shall require the retention of good academic
 15 standing, as defined by the commissioner pursuant to article thirteen of
 16 this chapter. Prior to the approval of any additional award pursuant to
 17 this section, participating institutions shall review the academic
 18 standing of all recipients of awards pursuant to this section; and
 19 provided, further, that no tuition assistance award shall be provided to
 20 any student, in any academic year, who has knowingly engaged in promot-
 21 ing antisemitism in a manner that is directed to inciting or producing
 22 imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action,

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03483-01-5

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 1 that constitutes "true threats," as defined by the United States supreme
 2 court in Virginia v. Black (2003), or that constitutes "fighting words,"
 3 pursuant to Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (1942), or fails to adequately
 4 address any such event. The term "antisemitism" shall have the same
 5 meaning as the working definition for "antisemitism" as provided by the
 6 International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance on May 26, 2016, including
 7 the contemporary examples of antisemitism cited by the International
 8 Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. The higher education services corpo-
 9 ration of the state of New York shall establish guidelines for determin-
 10 ing when a student has knowingly engaged in promoting antisemitism as
 11 well as guidelines for actions that may be taken to restore and/or
 12 resume a tuition assistance award.
 13 § 3. Subdivision 1 of section 667 of the education law, as amended by
 14 chapter 622 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
 15 1. Recipient qualifi