Bill Text: NY A04858 | 2023-2024 | 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: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A04858 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A04858-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4858 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 23, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BARCLAY, MANKTELOW, MORINELLO, BYRNES, J. M. GIGLIO, LEMONDES, BRABENEC -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. K. BROWN -- 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. Effective immediately 9 the regulations necessary for the implementation of the provisions of 10 this 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. LBD04911-01-3
