Bill Text: NY S05462 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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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 or multiple counts of sexual misconduct.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-05-14 - referred to higher education [S05462 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S05462-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5462--A
            Cal. No. 636
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 29, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  YOUNG,  GALLIVAN, LAVALLE, MURPHY, SERINO -- read
          twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
          Committee  on Higher Education -- reported favorably from said commit-
          tee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a  third  reading,
          amended  and  ordered  reprinted,  retaining its place in the order of
          third reading
        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  or
          multiple counts of sexual misconduct
          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, and if he or she has been convicted of multiple counts of  sexual
    11  misconduct  as  defined in section 130.20 of the penal law. If an appli-
    12  cant has been convicted of such an offense, he or she shall identify the
    13  violent felony sex offense or offenses of which he or she was  convicted
    14  and if he or she has been convicted of multiple counts of sexual miscon-
    15  duct as defined in section 130.20 of the penal law, the date or dates of
    16  such  conviction  or  convictions, and the court or courts in which such
    17  conviction or convictions were rendered.
    18    § 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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