Bill Text: NY A05299 | 2015-2016 | 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 21-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-25 - held for consideration in education [A05299 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A05299-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5299
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 17, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. BARCLAY, FINCH, KOLB, CROUCH, GIGLIO, HAWLEY,
BLANKENBUSH, TENNEY, DUPREY, WALTER, OAKS, STEC, GRAF, CORWIN --
Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BUTLER, CERETTO, 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 S 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.
LBD07902-01-5
