Assembly Bill A6551

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Excepts certain crimes committed by certain school educators from the three-year window to bring charges

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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
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2025-A6551 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2573, Ed L

2025-A6551 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Excepts crimes related to sex offenses, crimes against elderly or disabled persons and crimes related to sexual performance by a child from the three-year time limit to bring charges for such crimes against school educators employed by schools which are located in cities with 125,000 or more people.

2025-A6551 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6551
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 6, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. LUNSFORD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Codes
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education law, in relation to excepting certain
   crimes committed by  certain  school  educators  from  the  three-year
   window to bring charges
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 8 of section 2573  of  the  education  law,  as
 amended  by chapter 915 of the laws of 1963 and as renumbered by chapter
 717 of the laws of 1970, is amended to read as follows:
   8. No charges under this section shall  be  brought  more  than  three
 years  after  the  occurrence  of the alleged incompetency or misconduct
 except where the charge is of misconduct which  resulted  in  conviction
 for a crime. THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL NOT APPLY TO ALLEGED MISCONDUCT THAT
 WOULD  HAVE  CONSTITUTED A VIOLATION OF ARTICLES ONE HUNDRED THIRTY, TWO
 HUNDRED SIXTY, OR TWO HUNDRED SIXTY-THREE OF THE PENAL LAW OR MISCONDUCT
 THAT WOULD HAVE  MADE  ANY  DISTRICT  NAMED  UNDER  SECTION  TWENTY-FIVE
 HUNDRED  FIFTY OF THIS ARTICLE LIABLE UNDER THE CHILD VICTIMS ACT OR THE
 ADULT SURVIVORS ACT, IN WHICH CASE PROOF OF A CONVICTION  SHALL  NOT  BE
 REQUIRED FOR THE PURPOSES OF BRINGING CHARGES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09409-01-5

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