Assembly Bill A873

Signed By Governor
2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to the accurate reporting of crimes on college and university campuses

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-A873 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1316
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§355, 6206, 6306 & 6434, Ed L

2015-A873 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the accurate reporting of crimes on college and university campuses.

2015-A873 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                   873

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             January 7, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BRAUNSTEIN  -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Higher Education

AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to accurate reporting  of
  crimes on college and university campuses

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 17 of section 355 of the  educa-
tion  law,  as amended by chapter 486 of the laws of 2014, is amended to
read as follows:
  a. The board of trustees of the state university  of  New  York  shall
adopt  rules requiring that each institution of the state university, on
or before January first,  two  thousand,  adopt  and  implement  a  plan
providing  for the investigation of any violent felony offense occurring
at or on the grounds of each such institution,  and  providing  for  the
investigation  of  a  report  of  any  missing student. Such plans shall
provide for the coordination of the investigation  of  such  crimes  and
reports  with  local law enforcement agencies. Such plans shall include,
but not be limited to, written agreements  with  appropriate  local  law
enforcement  agencies  providing  for  the  prompt investigation of such
crimes and reports and a requirement that the institution  shall  notify
the  appropriate law enforcement agency as soon as practicable but in no
case more than twenty-four hours after a report of a violent  felony  or
that a student who resides in housing owned or operated by such institu-
tion  is  missing;  [provided that such reporting requirement shall take
into consideration applicable federal law, including,  but  not  limited
to,  the  federal  Campus  Sexual  Assault Victims' Bill of Rights under
Title 20 U.S. Code Section 1092(f) which gives the victim  of  a  sexual
offense  the right on whether or not to report such offense to local law
enforcement agencies] PROVIDED THAT EACH INSTITUTION SHALL:  (1)  INFORM
EACH  VICTIM  OF  A SEXUAL OFFENSE OF THEIR OPTIONS TO NOTIFY PROPER LAW
ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES,  INCLUDING  ON-CAMPUS  AND  LOCAL  POLICE;  (2)

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07300-01-5

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