Assembly Bill A5594

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to exempting teachers from additional certifications or prerequisites associated with running certain after-school 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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2019-A5594 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Children And Families
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §17, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A10540
2017-2018: A7360
2021-2022: A4840

2019-A5594 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to exempting teachers from additional certifications or prerequisites associated with running certain after-school programs except for background checks; and exempts any teacher working in any school building of a city school district of a city having one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants or more.

2019-A5594 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5594
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 13, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MANKTELOW  -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
   HAWLEY -- read once and referred to  the  Committee  on  Children  and
   Families
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to exempting teach-
   ers  from  additional  certifications or prerequisites associated with
   running certain after-school programs

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Section 17 of the social services law is amended by adding
 a new subdivision (h-1) to read as follows:
   (H-1) GRANT ANY TEACHER CERTIFIED IN ACCORDANCE WITH 8 NYCRR PART  80,
 AN  EXEMPTION  FROM ANY ADDITIONAL CERTIFICATION OR PREREQUISITE, EXCEPT
 FOR BACKGROUND CHECKS REQUIRED UNDER PUBLIC  LAW  113-186,  REQUIRED  TO
 OPERATE  ANY AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM OPERATED BY THE OFFICE OF CHILDREN AND
 FAMILY SERVICES, OR AN AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN RUN BY A PUBLIC
 SCHOOL DISTRICT OR BY A PRIVATE SCHOOL OR  ACADEMY  WHICH  IS  PROVIDING
 ELEMENTARY  OR  SECONDARY  EDUCATION  OR  BOTH,  IN  ACCORDANCE WITH THE
 COMPULSORY EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE EDUCATION  LAW,  PROVIDED  THAT
 THE  KINDERGARTEN,  PRE-KINDERGARTEN,  NURSERY  SCHOOL,  OR AFTER-SCHOOL
 PROGRAM IS LOCATED ON THE PREMISES OR CAMPUS  WHERE  THE  ELEMENTARY  OR
 SECONDARY  EDUCATION  IS PROVIDED; EXCEPT FOR ANY TEACHER WORKING IN ANY
 SCHOOL BUILDING OF A CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT OF A CITY HAVING  ONE  HUNDRED
 TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND INHABITANTS OR MORE.
   §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.    Effective  immediately,  the  addition,  amendment
 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
 of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to be made and
 completed on or before such effective date.
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08945-01-9

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