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                                  10521

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 31, 2016
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Introduced  by M. of A. NOLAN -- read once and referred 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:

  Section  1.  Paragraph d of subdivision 1 and subdivision 3 of section
3006-a of the education law, as added by section 2 of subpart C of  part
EE of chapter 56 of the laws of 2015, are amended to read as follows:
  d. Any certificate holder who is not practicing as a teacher, teaching
assistant  or  educational  leader  in  a school district [or], board of
cooperative educational services, OR NONPUBLIC SCHOOL THAT IS  PROVIDING
INSTRUCTION  PURSUANT  TO  SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION THIRTY-TWO HUNDRED
FOUR OF THIS TITLE in this state shall be  exempt  from  the  continuing
teacher  and  leader  education requirement upon the filing of a written
statement with the department declaring such status.  Any  holder  of  a
professional  certificate in the classroom teaching service, holder of a
level III teaching assistant certificate and holder  of  a  professional
certificate  in  the educational leadership service who resumes practice
during the five-year registration period  shall  notify  the  department
prior  to  resuming  practice and shall meet such continuing teacher and
leader education  requirements  as  prescribed  in  regulations  of  the
commissioner.
  3.  The  department, in its discretion, may issue a conditional regis-
tration to a teacher, teaching assistant  or  educational  leader  in  a
school  district  [or],  board  of  cooperative educational services, OR
NONPUBLIC SCHOOL THAT IS PROVIDING INSTRUCTION PURSUANT  TO  SUBDIVISION
TWO  OF  SECTION THIRTY-TWO HUNDRED FOUR OF THIS TITLE in this state who
fails to meet the continuing teacher and leader  education  requirements
established in subdivision two of this section but who agrees to make up
any  deficiencies  and take any additional continuing teacher and leader
education which the department may require. The duration of such  condi-
tional registration shall be determined by the department. Any holder of

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

                                                           LBD15308-01-6

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a  professional certificate in the classroom teaching service, holder of
a level III teaching assistant certificate or holder of  a  professional
certificate  in  the educational leadership service and any other certi-
fied  individual  required  by  the  commissioner to register every five
years who is notified of the  denial  of  registration  for  failure  to
submit  evidence, satisfactory to the department, of required continuing
teacher and leader education and who practices  without  such  registra-
tion, shall be subject to moral character review under subdivision seven
of section three hundred five of this chapter.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.