Bill Text: NY A01809 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires non-profit violence intervention programs to ensure violence interrupters are paid equally to police officers of equal experience working in the municipality in which the program is located.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-02-22 - enacting clause stricken [A01809 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01809-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1809

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. ZINERMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Operations

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the executive law, in relation to requiring violence
          intervention programs to ensure violence interrupters are paid equally
          to police officers

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

     1    Section  1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 636-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 636-a. Violence interrupters.   Any person employed  as  a  violence
     4  interrupter,  as such term may be defined by the office, by a community-
     5  based violence intervention program or  hospital-based  violence  inter-
     6  vention  program,  as  established  by section six hundred thirty-six of
     7  this article, or by any other non-profit  organization  established  for
     8  the purpose of violence prevention, shall be paid a salary that is equal
     9  to  the  amount  that  a police officer with an equal number of years of
    10  experience to such violence interrupter employed within the same munici-
    11  pality in which such program is located is paid.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    13  have become a law.




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