Assembly Bill A2376

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Requires all mentoring programs to do background checks on prospective employees and mentors

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2011-A2376 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Social Services
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง390-e, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A3904
2013-2014: A3373
2015-2016: A4781

2011-A2376 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires all mentoring programs to do background checks on prospective employees and mentors.

2011-A2376 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  2376

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 18, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. CLARK, MAYERSOHN, CANESTRARI, TITUS, WEISENBERG,
  MARKEY,  PHEFFER  --  Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M.  of  A.   BENEDETTO,
  BROOK-KRASNY,  CALHOUN,  COLTON,  CROUCH,  FINCH, GALEF, MAISEL, RAIA,
  SAYWARD, SPANO, THIELE, TOWNS -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Social Services

AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to  safe  mentoring
  practices

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivisions 2, 3 and 4 of  section  390-e  of  the  social
services  law,  as added by chapter 459 of the laws of 2006, are amended
to read as follows:
  2. Mentoring programs [may] SHALL perform a  criminal  history  record
check on all prospective employees and mentors.
  3. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, subject
to  the  rules  and  regulations  of  the  division  of criminal justice
services, mentoring programs [may] SHALL apply for  a  criminal  history
record  check  with  the division of criminal justice services regarding
any prospective employee or any prospective mentor  who  may  engage  in
unsupervised  activities  with  youth  or  in activities with youth in a
setting without constant agency or parental  oversight.  Each  mentoring
program  [that  chooses  to  complete such criminal background checks on
prospective employees or on prospective mentors] shall establish a poli-
cy for completing criminal background checks on such prospective employ-
ees or mentors. Such policy shall apply one  uniform  standard  for  the
completion  of  criminal background checks for all prospective employees
and one uniform standard  for  the  completion  of  criminal  background
checks  for all prospective mentors. Any mentoring program [that chooses
to complete criminal background checks on both prospective employees and
prospective mentors] may  utilize  the  same  uniform  process  for  the
completion  of  the  criminal background checks on prospective employees

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06589-01-1

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