Bill Text: NY S04016 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to continuing education requirements for certain certified individuals employed by nonpublic schools.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-09-13 - SIGNED CHAP.311 [S04016 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S04016-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4016
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 1, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MARCELLINO  -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  continuing  education
          requirements  for  certain certified individuals employed by nonpublic
          schools
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph d of subdivision 1 and subdivision 3 of section
     2  3006-a of the education law, as added by section 2 of subpart C of  part
     3  EE of chapter 56 of the laws of 2015, are amended to read as follows:
     4    d. Any certificate holder who is not practicing as a teacher, teaching
     5  assistant  or  educational  leader  in  a school district [or], board of
     6  cooperative educational services, or nonpublic school that is  providing
     7  instruction  pursuant  to  subdivision two of section thirty-two hundred
     8  four of this title in this state shall be  exempt  from  the  continuing
     9  teacher  and  leader  education requirement upon the filing of a written
    10  statement with the department declaring such status.  Any  holder  of  a
    11  professional  certificate in the classroom teaching service, holder of a
    12  level III teaching assistant certificate and holder  of  a  professional
    13  certificate  in  the educational leadership service who resumes practice
    14  during the five-year registration period  shall  notify  the  department
    15  prior  to  resuming  practice and shall meet such continuing teacher and
    16  leader education  requirements  as  prescribed  in  regulations  of  the
    17  commissioner.
    18    3.  The  department, in its discretion, may issue a conditional regis-
    19  tration to a teacher, teaching assistant  or  educational  leader  in  a
    20  school  district  [or],  board  of  cooperative educational services, or
    21  nonpublic school that is providing instruction pursuant  to  subdivision
    22  two  of  section thirty-two hundred four of this title in this state who
    23  fails to meet the continuing teacher and leader  education  requirements
    24  established in subdivision two of this section but who agrees to make up
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04725-01-7
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     1  any  deficiencies  and take any additional continuing teacher and leader
     2  education which the department may require. The duration of such  condi-
     3  tional registration shall be determined by the department. Any holder of
     4  a  professional certificate in the classroom teaching service, holder of
     5  a level III teaching assistant certificate or holder of  a  professional
     6  certificate  in  the educational leadership service and any other certi-
     7  fied individual required by the  commissioner  to  register  every  five
     8  years  who  is  notified  of  the  denial of registration for failure to
     9  submit evidence, satisfactory to the department, of required  continuing
    10  teacher  and  leader  education and who practices without such registra-
    11  tion, shall be subject to moral character review under subdivision seven
    12  of section three hundred five of this chapter.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.