STATE OF NEW YORK
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2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 10, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. NOLAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to continuing education
requirements for certain certified individuals employed by nonpublic
schools
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph d of subdivision 1 and subdivision 3 of section
2 3006-a of the education law, as added by section 2 of subpart C of part
3 EE of chapter 56 of the laws of 2015, are amended to read as follows:
4 d. Any certificate holder who is not practicing as a teacher, teaching
5 assistant or educational leader in a school district [or], board of
6 cooperative educational services, or nonpublic school that is providing
7 instruction pursuant to subdivision two of section thirty-two hundred
8 four of this title in this state shall be exempt from the continuing
9 teacher and leader education requirement upon the filing of a written
10 statement with the department declaring such status. Any holder of a
11 professional certificate in the classroom teaching service, holder of a
12 level III teaching assistant certificate and holder of a professional
13 certificate in the educational leadership service who resumes practice
14 during the five-year registration period shall notify the department
15 prior to resuming practice and shall meet such continuing teacher and
16 leader education requirements as prescribed in regulations of the
17 commissioner.
18 3. The department, in its discretion, may issue a conditional regis-
19 tration to a teacher, teaching assistant or educational leader in a
20 school district [or], board of cooperative educational services, or
21 nonpublic school that is providing instruction pursuant to subdivision
22 two of section thirty-two hundred four of this title in this state who
23 fails to meet the continuing teacher and leader education requirements
24 established in subdivision two of this section but who agrees to make up
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 any deficiencies and take any additional continuing teacher and leader
2 education which the department may require. The duration of such condi-
3 tional registration shall be determined by the department. Any holder of
4 a professional certificate in the classroom teaching service, holder of
5 a level III teaching assistant certificate or holder of a professional
6 certificate in the educational leadership service and any other certi-
7 fied individual required by the commissioner to register every five
8 years who is notified of the denial of registration for failure to
9 submit evidence, satisfactory to the department, of required continuing
10 teacher and leader education and who practices without such registra-
11 tion, shall be subject to moral character review under subdivision seven
12 of section three hundred five of this chapter.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
