Bill Text: NY A09705 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 9705 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires school administrators in private schools to report allegations of child abuse in an educational setting; includes private schools in the reporting requirements relating to child abuse in an educational setting.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 15-8)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-05 - referred to education [A09705 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09705-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          9705
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      April 5, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  McDONOUGH  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  requiring  school
          administrators in private schools to report allegations of child abuse
          in an educational setting
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2, 5 and 6 of section  1125  of  the  education
     2  law, subdivision 2 and 6 as added by chapter 180 of the laws of 2000 and
     3  subdivision  5  as  amended by section 1 of part E of chapter 501 of the
     4  laws of 2012, are amended to read as follows:
     5    2. "Child" shall mean a person  under  the  age  of  twenty-one  years
     6  enrolled  in  a  school  district  in  this  state,  other than a school
     7  district within a city having a population of one million  or  more,  or
     8  any  person  under the age of twenty-one enrolled in a private school in
     9  this state.
    10    5. "Educational setting" shall mean the  building  and  grounds  of  a
    11  public  school  district or private school, the vehicles provided by the
    12  school district or private school for the transportation of students  to
    13  and from school buildings, field trips, co-curricular and extra-curricu-
    14  lar  activities both on and off school district grounds, all co-curricu-
    15  lar and extra-curricular activity sites, and any  other  location  where
    16  direct contact between an employee or volunteer and a child has alleged-
    17  ly  occurred.  Such term shall not include a special act school district
    18  as defined in section four thousand one of this chapter which  shall  be
    19  subject to article eleven of the social services law.
    20    6. "Administrator" or "school administrator" shall mean a principal of
    21  a  public  or  private  school,  charter  school or board of cooperative
    22  educational services, or other chief school officer.
    23    § 2. The section heading and subdivision 1 of section  1128-a  of  the
    24  education  law, as added by chapter 180 of the laws of 2000, are amended
    25  to read as follows:
    26    Additional duties of superintendents and administrators.   1. Where  a
    27  superintendent  of  schools, or in the case of a private school a school
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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