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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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968
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 9, 2019
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Introduced by Sens. YOUNG, GALLIVAN, HELMING, SERINO -- 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 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.
LBD02928-02-9
