New York Assembly Bill 5211 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)
Status: Introduced on February 11 2009 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-01-06 - referred to codes
Pending: Assembly Codes Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The bill creates a comprehensive, state-wide approach to review of criminal history information by authorized employers, allowing and (in many instances) mandating fingerprinting and criminal history checks for prospective employees who will be working with certain categories of sensitive persons. The bill establishes reasonable safeguards concerning the use and dissemination of criminal history information. The bill also creates a Commission on Criminal History Information, which will promulgate standards and regulations regarding the procedures for criminal history checks, and will make recommendations for improving the accuracy and usefulness of the state's computerized criminal history database.

An act to amend the general business law, the mental hygiene law, the public health law, the social services law and the executive law, in relation to the review of criminal history information by authorized employers; and creates the commission on criminal history information

Asm. Richard Brodsky [D]	Asm. Ro Ann Destito [D]	Asm. Susan John [D]	Asm. Joseph Lentol [D]
Asm. William Magee [D]	Asm. Margaret Markey [D]	Asm. John McEneny [D]	Asm. Joseph Morelle [D]
Asm. Robert Sweeney [D]	Asm. Harvey Weisenberg [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-01-06		referred to codes
2009-02-11		referred to codes

Type	Source
Summary	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A05211&term=2009&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A05211&term=2009&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#A05211