A 5750: Requires the commissioner of education to promulgate regulations that provide for the immediate decertification of any teacher who is convicted of a felony under NY law or any offense under the laws of another jurisdiction that would be a felony under NY law.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5750 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY February 20, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BARCLAY, MANKTELOW, MORINELLO, LEMONDES, BRABENEC -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to decertification of a teacher who has been convicted of a felony The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 3004 of the education law is amended by adding a 2 new closing paragraph to read as follows: 3 The commissioner shall prescribe regulations that require the immedi- 4 ate decertification of any teacher who is convicted of a felony under 5 the laws of this state or any offense under the laws of another state 6 that, had it occurred in this state, would have constituted a felony. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 8 ing the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately 9 the regulations necessary for the implementation of the provisions of 10 this act shall be promulgated on or before such first of November. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02232-01-5