Bill Text: NY S00155 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Directs the board of trustees of the state university to require applicants to state-operated institutions to state whether they have been convicted of a violent felony offense.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 13-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S00155 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S00155-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 155 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 4, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sens. YOUNG, LAVALLE -- 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 directing the board of trustees of the state university to include, on every application for admission to a state-operated institution, a question on whether the applicant has been convicted of any violent felony offense The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 355 of the education law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 17-a to read as follows: 3 17-a. The board of trustees of the state university shall adopt rules 4 providing that each application to admission to a state-operated insti- 5 tution shall require the applicant to state whether he or she has ever 6 been convicted of a violent felony offense, as defined in subdivision 7 one of section 70.02 of the penal law, in this state or of an offense in 8 any other jurisdiction in the United States which includes all of the 9 essential elements of a violent felony offense in this state. If an 10 applicant has been convicted of such an offense, he or she shall identi- 11 fy the violent felony offense or offenses of which he or she was 12 convicted, the date or dates of such conviction or convictions, and the 13 court or courts in which such conviction or convictions were rendered. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06238-01-7