Assembly Bill A10276

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to background clearances for prospective employees and volunteers of mentoring programs

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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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2021-A10276 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8817
Current Committee:
Assembly Children And Families
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §390-e, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A3436, S1231

2021-A10276 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits mentoring programs to conduct background clearances of prospective employees and volunteers to determine whether any such person has been reported for child abuse or maltreatment or is on the sex offender registry.

2021-A10276 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10276
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 13, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Santabar-
   bara) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Children and Fami-
   lies
 
 AN ACT to amend the social  services  law,  in  relation  to  background
   clearances for employees and volunteers of mentoring programs
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 390-e of the social services law, as added by chap-
 ter 459 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
   § 390-e. Criminal history review AND/OR BACKGROUND CLEARANCES; mentor-
 ing programs. 1. For the purposes of this section, the  following  words
 shall have the following meanings:
   (a)  "Prospective  employee"  shall mean a person being considered for
 employment by a mentoring program.
   (b) "Prospective mentor" shall mean an  individual  who  is  currently
 applying  to  volunteer  to  help  a  child  or a group of children in a
 mentoring program for a period of time. Such help shall include, but not
 be limited to, being a positive role model for youth, building relation-
 ships with youth, and providing youth with academic assistance and expo-
 sure to new experiences and examples of  opportunity  that  enhance  the
 ability of children to become responsible adults.
   (c) "Mentoring program" shall mean a formalized program, operated by a
 corporation which has been incorporated pursuant to subparagraph five of
 paragraph  (a)  of  section one hundred two of the not-for-profit corpo-
 ration law or pursuant to subparagraph four of paragraph (a) of  section
 one  hundred  two  of  the  business  corporation law, or operated by an
 educational institution or school  district,  that  matches  youth  with
 adult  volunteers with the purpose of providing such youth with positive
 role models to enhance their development.
   (d) "Office" shall mean the office of children and family services.
   (E) "BACKGROUND CLEARANCE" SHALL MEAN (I) A SEARCH  OF  THE  NEW  YORK
 STATE  SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY; AND (II) A DATABASE CHECK OF THE STATEWIDE
 CENTRAL REGISTER OF CHILD ABUSE  AND  MALTREATMENT  IN  ACCORDANCE  WITH
 SECTION FOUR HUNDRED TWENTY-FOUR-A OF THIS ARTICLE.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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