Exempts teachers from additional certifications or prerequisites associated with running certain after-school programs except for background checks; exempts any teacher working in any school building of a city school district of a city having one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants or more.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4840
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 8, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. MANKTELOW -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Children and Families
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to exempting teach-
ers from additional certifications or prerequisites associated with
running certain after-school programs
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 17 of the social services law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision (h-1) to read as follows:
3 (h-1) grant any teacher certified in accordance with 8 NYCRR part 80,
4 an exemption from any additional certification or prerequisite, except
5 for background checks required under public law 113-186, required to
6 operate any after-school program operated by the office of children and
7 family services, or an after-school program for children run by a public
8 school district or by a private school or academy which is providing
9 elementary or secondary education or both, in accordance with the
10 compulsory education requirements of the education law, provided that
11 the kindergarten, pre-kindergarten, nursery school, or after-school
12 program is located on the premises or campus where the elementary or
13 secondary education is provided; except for any teacher working in any
14 school building of a city school district of a city having one hundred
15 twenty-five thousand inhabitants or more.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
17 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment
18 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
19 of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
20 completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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