Assembly Bill A4490

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the provision of criminal history background checks free of charge to mentoring programs operated by not-for-profit corporations

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2023-A4490 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §390-e, Soc Serv L; amd §837, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A7506
2021-2022: A4481

2023-A4490 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the provision of criminal history background checks free of charge to mentoring programs operated by not-for-profit corporations.

2023-A4490 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4490
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 16, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. RAMOS -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Children and Families
 
 AN ACT to amend the social  services  law  and  the  executive  law,  in
   relation  to  the provision of criminal history background checks free
   of charge to mentoring  programs  operated  by  not-for-profit  corpo-
   rations

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 390-e of the social services  law,
 as  added  by  chapter  459  of  the laws of 2006, is amended to read as
 follows:
   4. Every mentoring program that chooses to apply for a criminal histo-
 ry background check with the division of criminal justice services shall
 obtain a set of fingerprints from each individual for  whom  a  criminal
 background  check  is  to  be completed and such other information as is
 required by the office and the division of  criminal  justice  services.
 For  each  prospective employee or mentor for whom the mentoring program
 completes a criminal  background  check,  the  mentoring  program  shall
 provide  the applicant with blank fingerprint cards and a description of
 how the completed fingerprint card will be used upon submission  to  the
 mentoring  program.  The  mentoring program shall promptly transmit such
 fingerprint card and the processing fee to the office; PROVIDED,  HOWEV-
 ER, THERE SHALL BE NO PROCESSING FEE FOR A CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECK FOR
 MENTORING PROGRAMS DESCRIBED IN SUBPARAGRAPHS (I) AND (III) OF PARAGRAPH
 (C)  OF  SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF  THIS SECTION.   The office shall promptly
 submit the fingerprint card and the processing fee, IF imposed  pursuant
 to  subdivision  eight-a  of  section  eight hundred thirty-seven of the
 executive law, to the division of criminal justice services for its full
 search and retain processing.
   § 2. Subdivision 8-a of section 837 of the executive law,  as  amended
 by chapter 561 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04792-02-3
              

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