Bill Text: NY A01764 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the police canine vest fund to be used for the purpose of purchasing, maintaining, repairing and replacing soft body ballistic armor vests and other protective equipment for state police and municipal department police canines utilized in the performance of police duties, as well as the purchasing and training of such police canines.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-02-27 - print number 1764a [A01764 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01764-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1764

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 20, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  COLTON, CRUZ, BUTTENSCHON, SEAWRIGHT, GLICK,
          MORINELLO, NORRIS, J. M. GIGLIO, McDONOUGH,  DeSTEFANO,  RA,  MIKULIN,
          COOK, SIMON, MILLER, TAGUE, PALMESANO, LAVINE -- Multi-Sponsored by --
          M.  of  A.  RAMOS, WALSH -- read once and referred to the Committee on
          Ways and Means

        AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to  establishing  the
          police canine vest fund

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

     1    Section 1. The state finance law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  97-bbbbb to read as follows:
     3    § 97-bbbbb. Police canine vest fund. 1. There is hereby established in
     4  the joint custody of the state comptroller and the commissioner of taxa-
     5  tion and finance a fund to be known as the "police canine vest fund".
     6    2.  The  fund  shall  consist  of all moneys credited, appropriated or
     7  transferred thereto from any other fund or source. Nothing contained  in
     8  this  section  shall  prevent  the state from receiving grants, gifts or
     9  bequests for the purposes of the fund as defined  in  this  section  and
    10  depositing them into the fund according to law.
    11    3.  Moneys  from the fund shall be used for the purpose of purchasing,
    12  maintaining, repairing and replacing soft body ballistic armor vests and
    13  other protective equipment for state  police  and  municipal  department
    14  police canines utilized in the performance of police duties.
    15    4.  Nothing  contained  in this section shall be construed to prohibit
    16  the division of state police or any  municipal  police  department  from
    17  expending  its  own  funds for ballistic armor vests or other protective
    18  equipment for police canines.
    19    5. A municipal police department utilizing one or more police  canines
    20  may  apply  to  the superintendent of the state police for the purchase,
    21  maintenance, repair or replacement of  police  canine  vests  and  other
    22  protective  equipment  as provided in subdivision three of this section.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05189-01-3
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     1  The superintendent of the state police shall  establish  a  process  for
     2  application  by such police departments and for selection of departments
     3  to receive police canine vests or other protective equipment.
     4    6.  Moneys  shall  be paid out of the fund on the audit and warrant of
     5  the state comptroller on vouchers  approved  by  the  superintendent  of
     6  state  police.  Any  interest  received  by the comptroller on moneys on
     7  deposits in the fund shall be retained in and become part of such  fund.
     8  No  money  from  such fund may be withdrawn, transferred, or used by any
     9  person for any purpose other than as permitted by this section.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    11  have  become a law and shall apply to all claims filed on and after such
    12  effective date. Effective immediately  the  addition,  amendment  and/or
    13  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    14  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
    15  on or before such date.