New York A 4888: Relates to a parent's right to know if an employee, volunteer or an administrator of a school district is reprimanded for inappropriate conduct towards their child

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A04888 Summary:

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Relates to a parent's right to know if an employee, volunteer or an administrator of a school district is reprimanded for inappropriate conduct towards their child; enacts "parent's right to know" act.

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02/10/2025referred to education

01/07/2026referred to education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4888

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 10, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. TAPIA -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the parent's right to
 know of allegations of inappropriate conduct by a school district
 employee, volunteer or administrator

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

 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new article 23-C
 2 to read as follows:
 3 ARTICLE 23-C
 4 PARENT'S RIGHT TO KNOW ACT
 5 Section 1135. Short title.
 6 1136. Definitions.
 7 1137. Parent's right to know.
 8 § 1135. Short title. This article shall be known and may be cited as
 9 the "parent's right to know act".
 10 § 1136. Definitions. For the purposes of this article the following
 11 terms shall have the following meanings:
 12 1. "Employee" shall mean a school board member acting in their capaci-
 13 ty as a school board member, as well as any person receiving compen-
 14 sation from a school district or employee of a contracted service
 15 provider or worker placed within the school under a public assistance
 16 employment program, pursuant to title nine-B of article five of the
 17 social services law, and consistent with the provisions of such title
 18 for the provision of services to such district, its students or employ-
 19 ees, directly or through contract, whereby such services performed by
 20 such person involve direct student contact.
 21 2. "Volunteer" shall mean any person, other than an employee, who
 22 provides services to a school or school district, which involve direct
 23 student contact.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08841-01-5

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 1 3. "Administrator" or "school administrator" shall mean a principal,
 2 assistant principal, superintendent or assistant superintendent of a
 3 public school, charter school or board of cooperative educational
 4 services, or other chief school officer.
 5 § 1137. Parent's right to know. Every public school district, or any
 6 other school which primarily serves persons under the age of eighteen
 7 and which is registered with the department shall, within sixty days of
 8 the enactment of this section, adopt a policy which shall provide for
 9 notification as soon as reasonably practicable to a parent or legal
 10 guardian of an affected student or students of inappropriate conduct by
 11 an employee, volunteer or administrator of a school district with
 12 respect to a particular student or students in the event that the super-
 13 intendent of schools, the school board, or any member of the school
 14 board acting with the authorization of such board, such authorization to
 15 have been provided during an executive session, provides a written
 16 censure, reprimand, or otherwise in writing advises an employee, volun-
 17 teer, or an administrator of the school district of such person's inap-
 18 propriate conduct with respect to a particular student or students.
 19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
 20 this act shall not impair any provision of a collective bargaining
 21 agreement in effect prior to the effective date of this act which is
 22 contradictory to the provisions of this act. Any such provisions shall
 23 expire no later than on such agreement's existing expiration date.

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