Requires enumerated school administrators to report alleged sexual offenses to the district attorney both orally and in writing pursuant to specified requirements.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2892
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 21, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. CALHOUN, TEDISCO, CROUCH -- Multi-Sponsored by --
M. of A. FINCH, KOLB -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to reporting of sexual
offenses
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 3036
2 to read as follows:
3 § 3036. Reporting of sexual offenses. 1. Any person holding a position
4 as a principal, superintendent, or any other administrative position in
5 a common, union free, central, or city school district or in a board of
6 cooperative educational services in the state shall orally report or
7 cause a report to be made to the county district attorney within twen-
8 ty-four hours and shall be followed by a report in writing within
9 forty-eight hours after such oral report when they have reasonable cause
10 to suspect that a student coming before them in their professional or
11 official capacity has been a victim of any sexual offense under article
12 one hundred thirty or two hundred sixty-three, or under section 255.25
13 of the penal law.
14 2. Any person holding a position as a principal, superintendent, or
15 any other administrative position in a common, union free, central, or
16 city school district or in a board of cooperative educational services
17 in the state shall orally report or cause a report to be made to the
18 county district attorney within twenty-four hours and shall be followed
19 by a report in writing within forty-eight hours after such oral report
20 when they have reasonable cause to suspect in their professional or
21 official capacity that any employee of such school district has engaged
22 in any sexual offense with a student under article one hundred thirty or
23 two hundred sixty-three, or under section 255.25 of the penal law.
24 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
25 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02827-01-1
