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
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