Bill Text: NY A02849 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Prohibits the use of chemical agents by police officers against minors under the age of eighteen.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 34-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A02849 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02849-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2849

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 27, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MEEKS,  CLARK,  LUNSFORD, EPSTEIN, ANDERSON,
          KELLES, TAYLOR, HEVESI, JACKSON, GALLAGHER, SIMON, MAMDANI,  MITAYNES,
          BURDICK,  GONZALEZ-ROJAS,  HUNTER,  DICKENS,  AUBRY,  SEPTIMO, BURGOS,
          SEAWRIGHT, BRONSON, L. ROSENTHAL, FAHY,  SILLITTI,  ZINERMAN  --  read
          once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to prohibiting the use of
          chemical agents by police officers against minors

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 4 of section 840 of the execu-
     2  tive law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 5 to read as follows:
     3    (5) The model law enforcement use of force policy  and  every  use  of
     4  force  policy  established  pursuant to subparagraph three of this para-
     5  graph shall prohibit the use of any chemical agent, including,  but  not
     6  limited  to,  oleoresin  capsicum, pepper spray and tear gas against any
     7  minor under the age of eighteen in any circumstance.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07847-01-3
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