Senate Bill S6289

                            
 
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                                   6289
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 11, 2017
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health and Develop-
   mental Disabilities
 
 AN ACT to amend the  mental  hygiene  law  and  the  executive  law,  in
   relation  to  directing the commissioner of developmental disabilities
   to promulgate regulations authorizing the  denial  or  disapproval  of
   certain  employment  or  volunteer  applications  following a criminal
   history report for such applicant
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.    Section  13.19  of the mental hygiene law is amended by
 adding a new subdivision (e) to read as follows:
   (E) THE COMMISSIONER SHALL  PROMULGATE  REGULATIONS  (I)  REQUIRING  A
 CRIMINAL HISTORY REPORT FOR ANY PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYEE OR VOLUNTEER IN THE
 OFFICE  WHO WILL HAVE REGULAR DIRECT PATIENT CONTACT; AND (II) AUTHORIZ-
 ING THE DENIAL OR DISAPPROVAL  OF  ANY  APPLICATION  FOR  EMPLOYMENT  OR
 VOLUNTEER  SERVICE  IN  THE OFFICE FOR A POSITION THAT WILL HAVE REGULAR
 DIRECT PATIENT CONTACT WHERE A CRIMINAL HISTORY REPORT  CONCERNING  SUCH
 PROSPECTIVE  EMPLOYEE  OR VOLUNTEER REVEALS A CONVICTION FOR ANY OFFENSE
 THE COMMISSIONER DETERMINES WOULD  MAKE  SUCH  PROSPECTIVE  EMPLOYEE  OR
 VOLUNTEER UNFIT FOR EMPLOYMENT BY THE OFFICE.
   §  2.  Subdivision 8-a of section 837 of the executive law, as amended
 by chapter 561 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
   8-a. Charge a fee when, pursuant to statute or the regulations of  the
 division,  it  conducts  a  search  of  its criminal history records and
 returns a report thereon in connection with an application  for  employ-
 ment  or for a license or permit. The division shall adopt and may, from
 time to time, amend a schedule of such fees which shall  be  in  amounts
 determined  by  the  division  to  be  reasonably related to the cost of
 conducting such searches and returning reports thereon but, in no event,
 shall  any  such  fee  exceed  twenty-five  dollars  and  an  additional
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 surcharge  of  fifty  dollars.  The  comptroller is hereby authorized to
 deposit such fees into the general fund,  provided,  however,  that  the
 monies received by the division of criminal justice services for payment
 of  the  additional surcharge shall be deposited in equal amounts to the
 general fund  and  to  the  fingerprint  identification  and  technology
 account.  Notwithstanding  the foregoing, the division shall not request
 or accept any fee for searching its records  and  supplying  a  criminal
 history report pursuant to section two hundred fifty-one-b of the gener-
 al  business  law relating to participating in flight instruction at any
 aeronautical facility, flight school or institution of higher  learning,
 NOR  FOR  SEARCHING  ITS RECORDS AND SUPPLYING A CRIMINAL HISTORY REPORT
 PURSUANT TO REGULATIONS  ADOPTED  UNDER  SECTION  13.19  OF  THE  MENTAL
 HYGIENE LAW.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.