Bill Text: NY S01777 | 2021-2022 | 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 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S01777 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01777-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1777

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 15, 2021
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        Introduced  by Sens. SKOUFIS, GAUGHRAN, 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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