Requires the commissioner of education to promulgate regulations that provide for the immediate decertification of any teacher who is convicted of a felony under NY law or any offense under the laws of another jurisdiction that would be a felony under NY law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5299
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 17, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. BARCLAY, FINCH, KOLB, CROUCH, GIGLIO, HAWLEY,
BLANKENBUSH, TENNEY, DUPREY, WALTER, OAKS, STEC, GRAF, CORWIN --
Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BUTLER, CERETTO, DiPIETRO, LUPINACCI,
McDONOUGH, McLAUGHLIN, PALMESANO, THIELE -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to decertification of a
teacher who has been convicted of a felony
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 3004 of the education law is amended by adding a
2 new closing paragraph to read as follows:
3 The commissioner shall prescribe regulations that require the immedi-
4 ate decertification of any teacher who is convicted of a felony under
5 the laws of this state or any offense under the laws of another state
6 that, had it occurred in this state, would have constituted a felony.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
8 ing the date on which it shall have become a law; provided that the
9 regulations necessary to the implementation of the provisions of this
10 act shall be promulgated on or before such first of November.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07902-01-5
