Bill Text: NY A09889 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

---

Bill Title: Permits that when the division of criminal justice services has provided criminal history information within the previous twelve months to any state agency for certain individuals, such information can be used to satisfy the required criminal history check for such employee without having to re-request such information.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-19 - referred to people with disabilities [A09889 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A09889-Introduced.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9889

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 19, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on People with Disabilities

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  mental  hygiene  law, in relation to permitting
          certain previous criminal  history  information  provided  to  satisfy
          certain criminal background checks for certain employees

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 16.33 of the  mental  hygiene  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision (c) to read as follows:
     3    (c) Where the division of criminal justice services has provided crim-
     4  inal  history information within the previous twelve months to any state
     5  agency for any individual subject to subdivision (a) of this section who
     6  is a current employee of the office or an office-approved  provider,  of
     7  an office of children and family services licensed or certified program,
     8  of  an  office  of  addiction services and supports certified, funded or
     9  authorized program, or of an office of mental health licensed, funded or
    10  approved program, such information shall be used to satisfy the require-
    11  ments of this section.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    13  it shall have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14199-02-2