New York A 1604: Relates to a credit for employment of persons in recovery

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A01604 Summary:

BILL NOA01604 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORRamos

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COSPNSRSimone

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §390-e, Soc Serv L; amd §837, Exec L

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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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BILL NOA01604 

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01/10/2025referred to children and families

01/07/2026referred to children and families

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1604

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 10, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. RAMOS, SIMONE -- 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:

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 390-e of the social services law,
 2 as added by chapter 459 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as
 3 follows:
 4 4. Every mentoring program that chooses to apply for a criminal histo-
 5 ry background check with the division of criminal justice services shall
 6 obtain a set of fingerprints from each individual for whom a criminal
 7 background check is to be completed and such other information as is
 8 required by the office and the division of criminal justice services.
 9 For each prospective employee or mentor for whom the mentoring program
 10 completes a criminal background check, the mentoring program shall
 11 provide the applicant with blank fingerprint cards and a description of
 12 how the completed fingerprint card will be used upon submission to the
 13 mentoring program. The mentoring program shall promptly transmit such
 14 fingerprint card and the processing fee to the office; provided, howev-
 15 er, there shall be no processing fee for a criminal background check for
 16 mentoring programs described in subparagraphs (i) and (iii) of paragraph
 17 (c) of subdivision one of this section. The office shall promptly
 18 submit the fingerprint card and the processing fee, if imposed pursuant
 19 to subdivision eight-a of section eight hundred thirty-seven of the
 20 executive law, to the division of criminal justice services for its full
 21 search and retain processing.
 22 § 2. Subdivision 8-a of section 837 of the executive law, as amended
 23 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.
 LBD00452-02-5

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 1 8-a. Charge a fee when, pursuant to statute or the regulations of the
 2 division, it conducts a search of its criminal history records and
 3 returns a report thereon in connection with an application for employ-
 4 ment or for a license or permit. The division shall adopt and may, from
 5 time to time, amend a schedule of such fees which shall be in amounts
 6 determined by the division to be reasonably related to the cost of
 7 conducting such searches and returning reports thereon but, in no event,
 8 shall any such fee exceed twenty-five dollars and an additional
 9 surcharge of fifty dollars. The comptroller is hereby authorized to
 10 deposit such fees into the general fund, provided, however, that the
 11 monies received by the division of criminal justice services for payment
 12 of the additional surcharge shall be deposited in equal amounts to the
 13 general fund and to the fingerprint identification and technology
 14 account. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the division shall not request
 15 or accept any fee for searching its records and supplying a criminal
 16 history report pursuant to section two hundred fifty-one-b of the gener-
 17 al business law relating to participating in flight instruction at any
 18 aeronautical facility, flight school or institution of higher learning,
 19 or when the division is supplying a criminal history report to a m