Bill Text: NY A10540 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to exempting teachers from additional certifications or prerequisites associated with running certain after-school programs except for background checks; and exempts any teacher working in any school building of a city school district of a city having one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants or more.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-31 - referred to children and families [A10540 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A10540-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10540
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 31, 2016
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. OAKS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Children and Families
        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to exempting teach-
          ers from additional certifications or  prerequisites  associated  with
          running certain after-school programs
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 17 of the social services law is amended by  adding
     2  a new subdivision (h-1) to read as follows:
     3    (h-1)  grant any teacher certified in accordance with 8 NYCRR part 80,
     4  an exemption from any additional certification or  prerequisite,  except
     5  for  background  checks  required  under public law 113-186, required to
     6  operate any after-school program operated by the office of children  and
     7  family services, or an after-school program for children run by a public
     8  school  district  or  by  a private school or academy which is providing
     9  elementary or secondary  education  or  both,  in  accordance  with  the
    10  compulsory  education  requirements  of the education law, provided that
    11  the kindergarten,  pre-kindergarten,  nursery  school,  or  after-school
    12  program  is  located  on  the premises or campus where the elementary or
    13  secondary education is provided; except for any teacher working  in  any
    14  school  building  of a city school district of a city having one hundred
    15  twenty-five thousand inhabitants or more.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    17  have  become  a  law; provided, however, that effective immediately, the
    18  addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule  or  regulation  necessary
    19  for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
    20  to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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