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A00875 Summary:

BILL NOA00875 

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SAME ASSAME AS S01048

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SPONSORForrest

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COSPNSRSimon, Levenberg, Kelles, Epstein, Cunningham, Mamdani, McDonough, Mitaynes, Burdick, Weprin,
 Gallagher, Walker, Meeks, Lucas, Raga, Reyes, Shrestha, Burroughs, Shimsky, Cruz, Hooks, Colton

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §756, amd §755, Cor L

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Requires public agencies to establish preliminary license application procedures to determine whether an applicant for a license would be ineligible for such license based on criminal history; establishes time frames for public agencies to respond to such applications; requires public agencies to report information regarding granting licenses annually.

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BILL NOA00875 

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01/08/2025referred to correction

01/07/2026referred to correction

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There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 875

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. FORREST, SIMON, LEVENBERG, KELLES, EPSTEIN,
 CUNNINGHAM, MAMDANI, McDONOUGH, MITAYNES, BURDICK, WEPRIN, GALLAGHER,
 WALKER, MEEKS, LUCAS, RAGA, REYES -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Correction

 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to requiring public
 agencies to establish preliminary license application procedures to
 determine whether an applicant for a license would be ineligible for
 such license based on criminal history

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "prelimi-
 2 nary license application navigation (PLAN) act".
 3 § 2. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 756 to read
 4 as follows:
 5 § 756. Preliminary license application navigation. 1. Definitions.
 6 For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the
 7 following meanings:
 8 (a) "Applicant" means any individual intending to submit or who has
 9 submitted a preliminary license application under this section.
 10 (b) "Criminal history" means a record of all convictions and pending
 11 charges that a public agency is allowed to consider pursuant to subdivi-
 12 sion sixteen of section two hundred ninety-six of the executive law and
 13 any other governing law.
 14 2. This section shall apply to all public agencies that consider an
 15 applicant's criminal history as part of a license application or clear-
 16 ance process. Nothing in this section shall expand a public agency's
 17 ability to collect, either from an individual or third parties, informa-
 18 tion about an applicant's criminal history that the public agency was
 19 not authorized to collect as part of the license application process
 20 that existed prior to the effective date of this section.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02076-01-5

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 1 3. A public agency authorized to issue a license shall clearly,
 2 conspicuously, and in plain terms post on its website information
 3 detailing how the public agency considers an applicant's criminal histo-
 4 ry when an applicant seeks a license. Such information shall include:
 5 (a) the public agency's process for considering an applicant's crimi-
 6 nal history, including a list and a review of the governing statutes and
 7 regulations and any other law, guidance, or practice that is part of the
 8 public agency's criminal history review;
 9 (b) a list of criminal history that will never be considered with
 10 regard to licensure;
 11 (c) a list of which, if any, criminal history will be considered in an
 12 individualized determination about whether the public agency will confer
 13 the license;
 14 (d) the process for making a determination and the information that
 15 will be considered;
 16 (e) a list of which criminal history, if any, will operate as a bar to
 17 licensure;
 18 (f) a list of the types of information about an applicant that the
 19 public agency is prohibited from considering and that the public agency
 20 will not consider