Bill Text: NY A01650 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to dismissal of teachers for sexual improprieties; requires school districts to divulge reasons for dismissal to any school district which inquires into such teacher's dismissal.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 0000-00-00 - [A01650 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A01650-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1650
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 12, 2015
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        Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to school districts being
          notified when a teacher is dismissed from a  school  district  due  to
          sexual improprieties
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 115 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 115. Notification to school districts of a teacher's  dismissal  due
     4  to  sexual  impropriety. When a teacher has been dismissed from a school
     5  district due to a sexual impropriety and  such  sexual  impropriety  has
     6  been  proven  in a court of law, such information shall be placed on the
     7  teacher's permanent record and the former school district  shall  reveal
     8  the  reasons  for  such dismissal to all school districts throughout the
     9  state which inquire into such teacher's dismissal.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
    11  the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05318-01-5