Assembly Bill A8992

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires private elementary and secondary schools to require prospective employees to submit fingerprints for a criminal history background check

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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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2009-A8992 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3109
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง305 & 3001-d, Ed L

2009-A8992 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires nonpublic and private elementary and secondary schools to require their prospective employees to submit fingerprints through the commissioner of education for the purpose of criminal background checks; authorizes conditional appointment of employees by such schools pending determination of the criminal background check.

2009-A8992 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-A8992 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  8992

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 17, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  WEISENBERG, HIKIND, ROBINSON, KOLB, LANCMAN,
  COOK, ERRIGO, SPANO, BURLING, SCHROEDER,  McKEVITT,  TOBACCO,  BARRON,
  MARKEY  --  Multi-Sponsored  by  -- M. of A. BARRA, GABRYSZAK, GORDON,
  MAISEL, PHEFFER, QUINN, SCHIMEL, TITUS,  TOWNSEND  --  read  once  and
  referred to the Committee on Education

AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to requiring nonpublic
  and private elementary and secondary schools to apply to  the  commis-
  sioner  of education for criminal history record checks on prospective
  employees

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

  Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  30 of section 305 of the
education law, as amended by chapter 630 of the laws of 2006, is amended
to read as follows:
  (a) The commissioner, in cooperation with  the  division  of  criminal
justice  services  and  in  accordance with all applicable provisions of
law, shall promulgate rules and regulations to require the  fingerprint-
ing of prospective employees, as defined in section eleven hundred twen-
ty-five of this chapter, of school districts, charter schools and boards
of  cooperative  educational  services  and  [authorizing] REQUIRING the
fingerprinting of prospective employees of nonpublic and private elemen-
tary and secondary schools, and for the use of information derived  from
searches of the records of the division of criminal justice services and
the  federal  bureau  of  investigation based on the use of such finger-
prints. The commissioner shall also develop a form  for  use  by  school
districts,  charter schools, boards of cooperative educational services,
and nonpublic and private elementary and secondary schools in connection
with the submission of fingerprints that contains the specific job title
sought and any other information that may be relevant  to  consideration
of  the  applicant. The commissioner shall also establish a form for the
recordation of allegations of child abuse in an educational setting,  as

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09638-01-9
              

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