Bill Text: NY A02584 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
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) 2018-01-03 - referred to education [A02584 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A02584-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2584 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 20, 2017 ___________ 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. LBD04436-01-7