Bill Text: NY S06597 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires immediate notification by law enforcement of the filing of an accusatory instrument alleging a sex offense by an employee; provides that no cause of action against law enforcement or school district shall exist for damages related to the dissemination of criminal history or arrest records.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-19 - SUBSTITUTED BY A8382B [S06597 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S06597-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6597--B Cal. No. 1455 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE June 6, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SERINO, MARCHIONE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- recom- mitted to the Committee on Education in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring immediate notification by law enforcement of the filing of an accusatory instru- ment alleging a sex offense by an employee The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 3021-a 2 to read follows: 3 § 3021-a. Notification of accusatory instrument alleging a sex 4 offense. 1. For purposes of this section: 5 (a) The term "employee" means any person receiving compensation from a 6 school district, charter school, board of cooperation educational 7 services, private elementary or secondary school, special education 8 schools, or employee of a contracted service provider or worker placed 9 within the school under a public assistance employment program pursuant 10 to title nine-B of article five of the social services law, and consist- 11 ent with the provisions of such title for the provision of services to 12 such district or school, its students or employees, directly or through 13 contract, whereby such services performed by such person involved direct 14 student contact. 15 (b) The term "sex offense" means an offense for which registration as 16 a sex offender is required pursuant to article six-C of the correction 17 law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13055-08-8S. 6597--B 2 1 2. When an accusatory instrument has been filed alleging the commis- 2 sion of a sex offense by a person known to be an employee of a school 3 district, charter school, board of cooperative educational services, 4 private elementary or secondary school, or special education schools, it 5 is the responsibility of the district attorney to immediately notify the 6 superintendent of schools or school administrator that employs such 7 employee of the accusatory instrument and the sex offense or offenses 8 alleged therein. 9 3. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to diminish the rights, 10 privileges, or remedies of any employee contained within section three 11 thousand twenty-a of this article, or section seventy-five of the civil 12 service law, or under any collective bargaining agreement or employment 13 contract. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
