Bill Text: NY S01722 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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 sex offense.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S01722 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01722-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1722

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 13, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. SKOUFIS, THOMAS -- 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 sex 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 for 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 sex offense, as defined in subdivi-
     7  sion one of section 70.80 of the penal law,  in  this  state  or  of  an
     8  offense  in  any  other jurisdiction in the United States which includes
     9  all of the essential elements of a violent felony sex  offense  in  this
    10  state.  If an applicant has been convicted of such an offense, he or she
    11  shall identify the violent felony sex offense or offenses of which he or
    12  she was convicted, the date or dates of such conviction or  convictions,
    13  and  the  court  or  courts in which such conviction or convictions were
    14  rendered.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



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