Bill Text: NY A03600 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of education to promulgate regulations that provide for the immediate decertification of any teacher who is convicted of a felony under NY law or any offense under the laws of another jurisdiction that would be a felony under NY law.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 14-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-06 - held for consideration in education [A03600 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A03600-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3600 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 27, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BARCLAY, BLANKENBUSH, CROUCH, FINCH, GIGLIO, GRAF, HAWLEY, KOLB, OAKS, STEC, WALTER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BUTLER, DiPIETRO, LUPINACCI, McDONOUGH, McLAUGHLIN, PALMESANO, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to decertification of a teacher who has been convicted of a felony The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 3004 of the education law is amended by adding a 2 new closing paragraph to read as follows: 3 The commissioner shall prescribe regulations that require the immedi- 4 ate decertification of any teacher who is convicted of a felony under 5 the laws of this state or any offense under the laws of another state 6 that, had it occurred in this state, would have constituted a felony. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 8 ing the date on which it shall have become a law; provided that the 9 regulations necessary to the implementation of the provisions of this 10 act shall be promulgated on or before such first of November. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05384-01-7
