Bill Text: NY A06600 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 6600 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to requiring the fingerprinting of prospective employees of approved private special education schools; phases in a requirement that all fingerprints submitted by prospective employees and applicants for certification be electronically submitted; strengthens identification verification practices for the purpose of conducting criminal history record checks and enhances existing statutory mechanisms to expedite the removal of persons who commit fingerprint fraud; makes permanent certain provisions relating to conditional clearances for employment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-25 - print number 6600a [A06600 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A06600-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6600--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 27, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. NOLAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Education  in  accord-
          ance  with  Assembly  Rule  3,  sec.  2  -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee
        AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring the finger-
          printing of prospective employees of approved private  special  educa-
          tion schools, phasing-in a requirement that all fingerprints submitted
          by prospective employees and applicants for certification be electron-
          ically  submitted, strengthening identification verification practices
          for the purpose of  conducting  criminal  history  record  checks  and
          enhancing  existing  statutory  mechanisms  to expedite the removal of
          persons who commit fingerprint fraud, to amend chapter 147 of the laws
          of 2001, amending the education law relating to  conditional  appoint-
          ment  of  school  district,  charter  school  or  BOCES  employees, in
          relation to making permanent certain  provisions  relating  to  condi-
          tional  clearances for employment, and to amend chapter 91 of the laws
          of 2002, amending the education law and other  laws  relating  to  the
          reorganization  of  the  New  York city school construction authority,
          board of education, and community boards, in relation  to  the  effec-
          tiveness thereof; and to repeal section 4 of chapter 91 of the laws of
          2002,  amending the education law and other laws relating to the reor-
          ganization of the New York city school construction  authority,  board
          of education, and community boards, relating thereto
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subdivision 30 of section 305  of
     2  the  education law, paragraph (a) and the opening paragraph and subpara-
     3  graph (i) of paragraph (b) as amended by chapter  630  of  the  laws  of
     4  2006,  paragraph  (b)  as  added by chapter 180 of the laws of 2000, are
     5  amended to read as follows:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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