S 1017: Provides that each state and city college or university assign a personal identification number to each application for acceptance to be used during the admissions process in place of any other identifying information including names and addresses.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1017 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. JACKSON -- 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 the assignment of a personal identification number to each application for acceptance to the state university and the city university 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 22 to read as follows: 3 22. The state university trustees shall mandate that each state-oper- 4 ated institution of the state university provide for the assignment of a 5 personal identification number to each application for acceptance 6 received by such institution. Such personal identification number shall 7 be used throughout the admissions process in place of any other identi- 8 fying information relating to such prospective student including name 9 and address, until such time as a student is accepted or denied admis- 10 sion. 11 § 2. Section 6206 of the education law is amended by adding a new 12 subdivision 2-a to read as follows: 13 2-a. The board of trustees shall mandate that each college of the city 14 university provide for the assignment of a personal identification 15 number to each application for acceptance received by such institution. 16 Such personal identification number shall be used throughout the admis- 17 sions process in place of any other identifying information relating to 18 such prospective student including name and address, until such time as 19 a student is accepted or denied admission. 20 § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 21 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02945-01-5