Bill Text: NY A04225 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: 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.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 14-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-13 - held for consideration in education [A04225 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A04225-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 2, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. BARCLAY, FINCH, KOLB, CROUCH, GIGLIO, HAWLEY --
Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. McDONOUGH, SAYWARD, 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 S 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.
LBD08668-01-1
