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Assembly Bill A1742

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Requires school districts to subject prospective volunteers to fingerprinting and background checks prior to commencing work at such school district

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2019-A1742 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3035, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A8658
2013-2014: A831
2015-2016: A733
2017-2018: A2714

2019-A1742 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires school districts to subject prospective volunteers to fingerprinting and background checks prior to commencing work at such school district.

2019-A1742 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1742
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 16, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. M. G. MILLER -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  requiring  school
   districts  to  subject  prospective  volunteers  to fingerprinting and
   background checks prior to commencing work at such school district

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section 3035 of the education law, as
 amended by chapter 630 of the laws  of  2006,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1.  (A)  The  commissioner  shall  submit  to the division of criminal
 justice services two sets of fingerprints of  prospective  employees  as
 defined  in  subdivision  three of section eleven hundred twenty-five of
 this chapter OR PROSPECTIVE VOLUNTEERS AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION FOUR OF
 SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE  OF  THIS  CHAPTER  received  from  a
 school  district,  charter  school  or  board of cooperative educational
 services and of prospective employees OR PROSPECTIVE VOLUNTEERS received
 from nonpublic and private elementary and secondary schools pursuant  to
 title two of this chapter, and the division of criminal justice services
 processing  fee imposed pursuant to subdivision eight-a of section eight
 hundred thirty-seven of the executive law and any  fee  imposed  by  the
 federal  bureau  of  investigation.  The  division  of  criminal justice
 services and the federal bureau  of  investigation  shall  forward  such
 criminal  history record to the commissioner in a timely manner. For the
 purposes of this section, the term "criminal history record" shall  mean
 a  record  of all convictions of crimes and any pending criminal charges
 maintained on an individual by the division of criminal justice services
 and the federal bureau  of  investigation.  All  such  criminal  history
 records  sent  to the commissioner pursuant to this subdivision shall be
 confidential pursuant to the applicable federal and  state  laws,  rules
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00354-01-9

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