Bill Text: NY A05173 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Permits teachers to record classroom lessons and retain rights to the recordings.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-25 - enacting clause stricken [A05173 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A05173-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5173 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 6, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SKARTADOS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to permitting teachers to record classroom lessons and retain rights The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 3037 2 to read as follows: 3 § 3037. Teachers retaining rights to recorded lessons. 1. A teacher 4 may, with either written permission from the parents of those students 5 involved or by removing any way to identify a student via face blurring, 6 record classroom lessons being given by the teacher. A teacher is not 7 required to receive permission from the school to record a lesson and a 8 school shall not enact policies to prevent such recordings from occur- 9 ring. 10 2. The copyright to any recorded lessons is held solely by the teacher 11 or teachers who made the recording. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07042-01-7
