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Assembly Bill A9598

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Requires immediate termination of employees or volunteers convicted of any crime involving child abuse in an educational setting

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2011-A9598 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง1131, Ed L

2011-A9598 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires immediate termination of employees or volunteers convicted of any crime involving child abuse in an educational setting.

2011-A9598 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  9598

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 20, 2012
                               ___________

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

AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to requiring immediate
  termination of employees or volunteers convicted of any crime  involv-
  ing child abuse in an educational setting

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 1131  of  the  education  law,  as
added by chapter 180 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
  2.  Upon  receiving  notice  of  a conviction from a district attorney
pursuant to subdivision one of this section, the  [commissioner]  SUPER-
INTENDENT  OF  SCHOOLS  OF  THE  DISTRICT  WHERE THE ACTS OF CHILD ABUSE
OCCURRED shall, without delay, [proceed to determine whether  the  indi-
vidual  possesses  good  moral  character,  in accordance with the regu-
lations of the commissioner governing such a determination]  IMMEDIATELY
TERMINATE THE EMPLOYEE OR VOLUNTEER.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD15049-01-2

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