Senate Bill S180

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Requires parents to submit proof of age and nature of parental relation upon enrolling child in school

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Education Committee


  • 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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2011-S180 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1617
Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§3212 & 3212-a, add §3212-b, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S1415, A10545
2013-2014: A6160
2015-2016: A2311

2011-S180 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires persons in parental relation to an individual or a person required to attend school to submit proof of age and parental relation to school in which individual is enrolled; requires school superintendent to make inquiry of statewide central register for missing children if such information is not provided and the individual may be a missing child; requires records of age and parental relation to be maintained by schools pursuant to regulations of the commissioner of education; requires transfer of such records upon transfer of minor to another school

2011-S180 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2011-S180 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                   180

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 5, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. MAZIARZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Education

AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to information concerning
  minor school children enrolling in and transferring to schools

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

  Section  1.  The opening paragraph and paragraph a of subdivision 2 of
section 3212 of the education law, the opening paragraph as  amended  by
chapter  919  of  the laws of 1974 and paragraph a as amended by chapter
690 of the laws of 1994, are amended to read as follows:
  Every person in parental relation to another individual [included]  OR
A  MINOR  REQUIRED  TO ATTEND UPON INSTRUCTION by the provisions of THIS
part [one of this article]:
  a.  Shall submit at the time such individual IS NEWLY REGISTERED IN  A
SCHOOL DISTRICT IN WHICH THEY WERE NEVER PREVIOUSLY REGISTERED begins to
attend upon instruction evidence of (I) age as required for the issuance
of  an  employment  certificate  AND  (II)  THE  NATURE  OF THE PARENTAL
RELATIONSHIP AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION, or show that
such  evidence  cannot  be  produced.  [When  such  evidence  cannot  be
produced,  or  when  circumstances  exist which reasonably indicate that
such individual may be a missing child, the superintendent of schools or
his or her authorized representative shall report and  make  inquiry  to
the  statewide central register for missing children pursuant to section
eight hundred thirty-seven-e of the executive law. If such child appears
to match a child registered with  the  statewide  central  register  for
missing  children, or one registered with the national crime information
center register, the superintendent or his or her  authorized  represen-
tative shall immediately contact the local law enforcement authority. No
civil or criminal liability shall arise or attach to any school district
or employee thereof for any act or omission to act as a result of, or in

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

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