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A10650 Summary:

BILL NOA10650 

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SAME ASSAME AS S05632-D

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SPONSORTaylor

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COSPNSR

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Add Art 129-C §6450, Ed L

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Implements a students' bill of rights for city university of New York institutions to guarantee certain rights to students at such institutions.

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BILL NOA10650 

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03/19/2026referred to higher education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 10650

 IN ASSEMBLY

 March 19, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. TAYLOR -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Higher Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to implementing a
 students' bill of rights for city university of New York institutions

 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 129-C
 2 to read as follows:
 3 ARTICLE 129-C
 4 IMPLEMENTATION BY COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES OF A STUDENTS' BILL OF
 5 RIGHTS
 6 Section 6450. Students' bill of rights.
 7 § 6450. Students' bill of rights. 1. As used in this section, the
 8 following terms shall have the following meanings:
 9 a. "Institution" shall mean any college or university in the city
 10 university of New York.
 11 b. "School-sponsored media" means any material that is prepared, writ-
 12 ten, published, or broadcast by a student journalist at an institution,
 13 distributed or generally made available to members of the student body
 14 or the public. "School-sponsored media" shall not include media intended
 15 for distribution or transmission solely in the classroom in which the
 16 media is produced.
 17 c. "Student journalist" means a student enrolled in an institution who
 18 gathers, compiles, writes, edits, photographs, records, or prepares
 19 information for dissemination in school-sponsored media.
 20 d. "Student media advisor" means an individual employed, appointed, or
 21 designated by an institution to supervise or provide instruction relat-
 22 ing to school-sponsored media.
 23 2. Every institution shall adopt written rules implementing this
 24 section by amending its code of conduct or other comparable policies. A
 25 copy of such rules and policies shall be provided by each institution to
 26 all students enrolled in said institution using a method and manner
 27 appropriate to its institutional culture. Each institution shall also

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD10141-13-6

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 1 post such rules and policies on its website in an easily accessible
 2 manner to the public.
 3 3. Every institution shall adopt and implement the following
 4 "Students' Bill of Rights":
 5 a. (i) The elected student leader shall be able to message the student
 6 body through e-mail, or a substantially equivalent system utilized by
 7 the institution to communicate with the student body, with prior
 8 approval from the campus office of student life to ensure that the
 9 communication with students complies with federal, state and local law,
 10 and institution policies. Such prior approval shall be made in a timely
 11 and efficient manner. Any denial of part of or an entire communication
 12 shall be made in writing with a citation to the provision of law or
 13 institution policy which would be violated by such communication.
 14 (ii) No expression made by an elected student leader which is
 15 protected by this paragraph shall be deemed to be an expression of poli-
 16 cy, opinion or position of the institution, nor shall any such
 17 expression be considered to be an endorsement in any way by the institu-
 18 tion and no institution, employee, parent, legal guardian or administra-
 19 tor of an institution shall be held liable in any civil or criminal
 20 action for any expression made by an elected student leader, except in
 21 cases of willful or wanton misconduct. Nothing in this paragraph shall
 22 be construed to create any private action on behalf of a student other
 23 than to seek injunctive relief allowing t