Excepts crimes related to sex offenses, crimes against elderly or disabled persons and crimes related to sexual performance by a child from the three-year time limit to bring charges for such crimes against school educators employed by schools which are located in cities with 125,000 or more people.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6551
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 6, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. LUNSFORD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to excepting certain
crimes committed by certain school educators from the three-year
window to bring charges
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 8 of section 2573 of the education law, as
2 amended by chapter 915 of the laws of 1963 and as renumbered by chapter
3 717 of the laws of 1970, is amended to read as follows:
4 8. No charges under this section shall be brought more than three
5 years after the occurrence of the alleged incompetency or misconduct
6 except where the charge is of misconduct which resulted in conviction
7 for a crime. This subdivision shall not apply to alleged misconduct that
8 would have constituted a violation of articles one hundred thirty, two
9 hundred sixty, or two hundred sixty-three of the penal law or misconduct
10 that would have made any district named under section twenty-five
11 hundred fifty of this article liable under the child victims act or the
12 adult survivors act, in which case proof of a conviction shall not be
13 required for the purposes of bringing charges.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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