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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8929
IN SENATE
January 16, 2026
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Introduced by Sen. COONEY -- 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 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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