Authorizes the justice center to create a central registry for employees for all current and prospective agencies, sponsoring agencies or other providers of services that are certified, authorized, approved or funded through contract by the office for people with developmental disabilities to streamline criminal background checks.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2716
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 22, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Disabilities
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to authorizing the
justice center for the protection of people with special needs to
create a central registry for employees
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 563 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 563. Central state registry. 1. The justice center for the
4 protection of people with special needs shall create a central registry
5 which shall handle all criminal background checks for all current and
6 prospective agencies, sponsoring agencies or other providers of services
7 that are certified, authorized, approved or funded through contract by
8 the office for people with developmental disabilities. Such registry
9 shall contain a list of all employees who passed a criminal background
10 check.
11 2. The justice center shall establish rules and regulations for the
12 sharing of information via a consent form for employees in current and
13 prospective agencies, sponsoring agencies or other providers of services
14 that are certified, authorized, approved or funded through contract by
15 the office for people with developmental disabilities to allow for such
16 employees to work concurrently for or transfer between current or
17 prospective agencies, sponsoring agencies or other providers of services
18 without the need for duplicative criminal background checks.
19 3. The central state registry shall be accessible to current and
20 prospective agencies, sponsoring agencies or other providers of services
21 that are certified, authorized, approved or funded through contract by
22 the office for people with developmental disabilities upon receipt of
23 the consent form specified in subdivision two of this section by a
24 prospective employee who will work concurrently for or transfer between
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 a current or prospective agency, sponsoring agency or other providers of
2 services that are certified, authorized, approved or funded through
3 contract by the office for people with developmental disabilities.
4 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
5 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
6 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
7 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
8 on or before such date.
