Bill Text: NY S06507 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring the fingerprinting of prospective employees of approved private special education schools; phases in a requirement that all fingerprints submitted by prospective employees and applicants for certification be electronically submitted; strengthens identification verification practices for the purpose of conducting criminal history record checks and enhances existing statutory mechanisms to expedite the removal of persons who commit fingerprint fraud; makes permanent certain provisions relating to conditional clearances for employment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-05-18 - referred to education [S06507 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06507-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6507
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 21, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MARCELLINO  -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring the  finger-
          printing  of  prospective employees of approved private special educa-
          tion schools, phasing-in a requirement that all fingerprints submitted
          by prospective employees and applicants for certification be electron-
          ically submitted, strengthening identification verification  practices
          for  the  purpose  of  conducting  criminal  history record checks and
          enhancing existing statutory mechanisms to  expedite  the  removal  of
          persons who commit fingerprint fraud, to amend chapter 147 of the laws
          of  2001,  amending the education law relating to conditional appoint-
          ment of  school  district,  charter  school  or  BOCES  employees,  in
          relation  to  making  permanent  certain provisions relating to condi-
          tional clearances for employment, and to amend chapter 91 of the  laws
          of  2002,  amending  the  education law and other laws relating to the
          reorganization of the New York  city  school  construction  authority,
          board  of  education,  and community boards, in relation to the effec-
          tiveness thereof; and to repeal section 4 of chapter 91 of the laws of
          2002, amending the education law and other laws relating to the  reor-
          ganization  of  the New York city school construction authority, board
          of education, and community boards, relating thereto
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subdivision 30 of section 305 of
     2  the education law, paragraph (a) and the opening paragraph and  subpara-
     3  graph  (i)  of  paragraph  (b)  as amended by chapter 630 of the laws of
     4  2006, paragraph (b) as added by chapter 180 of the  laws  of  2000,  are
     5  amended to read as follows:
     6    (a)  The  commissioner,  in  cooperation with the division of criminal
     7  justice services and in accordance with  all  applicable  provisions  of
     8  law,  shall promulgate rules and regulations to require the fingerprint-
     9  ing of prospective employees, as defined in section eleven hundred twen-
    10  ty-five of this chapter, of school districts, charter schools and boards
    11  of cooperative educational services, and special education schools,  and
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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