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Jan 15, 2015 |
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Senate Bill S1895
2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Education Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
(D) Senate District
(R, C, IP, RFM) 24th Senate District
2015-S1895 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A1904
- Current Committee:
- Senate Education
- Law Section:
- Education Law
- Laws Affected:
- Add §3635-d, Ed L; amd §509-cc, V & T L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2011-2012:
S6157, A9444
2013-2014: S883, A2786
2017-2018: S2049, A2174
2019-2020: A4650
2021-2022: A3428
2023-2024: A3542
2015-S1895 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S1895 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the education law and the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to disqualification of persons employed as school bus monitors and bus drivers PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: To prohibit individuals who are convicted of certain offenses involving children from being school bus monitors and to prohibit individuals convicted of "Leandra's Law" violations from being school bus drivers for a period of five years. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Section 1: Amends the Education Law by adding a new section 3635-d which defines school bus monitors as "any adult employed by a school district or a private entity to ride on a school bus for the purpose of ensuring the safety of its passengers or for monitoring the conduct of the bus passengers" and prohibits individuals who have been convicted of certain offenses involving children, sexual based offenses and drug offenses from being school bus monitors. It also requires school bus monitors to be fingerprinted to determine whether or not they have been convicted of a crime that would disqualify them
2015-S1895 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1895 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 15, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sens. BONACIC, AVELLA, LANZA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Educa- tion AN ACT to amend the education law and the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to disqualification of persons employed as school bus moni- tors and bus drivers THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 3635-d to read as follows: S 3635-D. DISQUALIFICATION OF SCHOOL BUS MONITORS. 1. A PERSON SHALL BE DISQUALIFIED FROM ACTING AS A SCHOOL BUS MONITOR AS FOLLOWS: (A) PERMANENTLY, IF THAT PERSON HAS BEEN CONVICTED OF AN OFFENSE LIST- ED IN PARAGRAPH (A) OF SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION FIVE HUNDRED NINE-CC OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW. HOWEVER, SUCH DISQUALIFICATION MAY BE WAIVED BY THE COMMISSIONER PROVIDED THAT FIVE YEARS HAVE EXPIRED SINCE THE APPLICANT WAS DISCHARGED OR RELEASED FROM A SENTENCE OF IMPRISONMENT IMPOSED PURSUANT TO CONVICTION OF AN OFFENSE THAT REQUIRES DISQUALIFICA- TION UNDER THIS PARAGRAPH AND THAT THE APPLICANT SHALL HAVE BEEN GRANTED A CERTIFICATE OF RELIEF FROM DISABILITIES OR A CERTIFICATE OF GOOD CONDUCT PURSUANT TO ARTICLE TWENTY-THREE OF THE CORRECTION LAW. WHEN THE CERTIFICATE IS ISSUED BY A COURT FOR A CONVICTION WHICH OCCURRED IN THIS STATE, IT SHALL ONLY BE ISSUED BY THE COURT HAVING JURISDICTION OVER SUCH CONVICTION. SUCH CERTIFICATE SHALL SPECIFICALLY INDICATE THAT THE AUTHORITY GRANTING SUCH CERTIFICATE HAS CONSIDERED THE BEARING, IF ANY, THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OR OFFENSES FOR WHICH THE PERSON WAS CONVICTED WILL HAVE ON THE APPLICANT'S FITNESS TO MONITOR AND ENSURE THE SAFETY OF CHILDREN RIDING ON A SCHOOL BUS, PRIOR TO GRANTING SUCH A CERTIFICATE; (B) PERMANENTLY, IF THAT PERSON HAS BEEN CONVICTED OF AN OFFENSE LIST- ED IN PARAGRAPH (B) OF SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION FIVE HUNDRED NINE-CC OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW. HOWEVER, SUCH DISQUALIFICATION SHALL BE EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03323-01-5
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