STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5462 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 29, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. YOUNG -- 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. LBD10743-01-7