S5257 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
Requires mandatory background checks for persons employed by or volunteering at any business corporation, not-for-profit corporation, limited liability company, or limited partnership that regularly provides instructional, recreational or extracurricular services to minors, including but not limited to dance studios, gymnastic schools, martial arts academies, sports training facilities, music schools and performing arts schools, tutoring and academic enrichment centers; provides for enforcement and penalties; prohibits certain people from owning such businesses.
- Title
- Requires mandatory background checks for persons employed by certain businesses serving minors and prohibiting certain persons from owning such businesses
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- Passed Assembly
- Latest action date
- 2026-05-29
- Introduced
- 2025-02-20
- Active version
- S5257C
- Same as
- A6568
- Law section
- General Business Law
Sponsors
Co-sponsors
Heard in committee
- Codes NY State Assembly committee
- Consumer Protection NY State Senate committee
- Rules NY State Senate committee
Committee meetings
Committee meetings that took this bill up, from the Senate's published agendas. The Assembly does not publish its committee agendas in machine-readable form, so an Assembly committee's consideration of a bill is not on this list.
- Consumer Protection, 2026-02-24 First reading
- Rules, 2025-06-12