Bill Text: NY A04596 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to prohibiting police officers from carrying or using a firearm during any phase of the officer's official duties unless the officer has satisfactorily completed a course of training that meets or exceeds the minimum standards established by the municipal police training council.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to ways and means [A04596 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A04596-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4596--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 3, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. BLAKE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Local Governments -- committee discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend the general municipal law, in relation to prohibiting
          police officers from carrying or using a firearm during any  phase  of
          the  officer's  official  duties unless the officer has satisfactorily
          completed a course of training that meets or exceeds the minimum stan-
          dards established by the municipal police training council
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraphs (b) and (c) of subdivision 1 of section 209-q of
     2  the  general  municipal  law are relettered paragraphs (c) and (d) and a
     3  new paragraph (b) is added to read as follows:
     4    (b) No employer shall allow any police officer it employs to carry  or
     5  use  a  firearm during any phase of the officer's official duties, which
     6  constitutes on-duty employment, unless the  officer  has  satisfactorily
     7  completed  a course of training that meets or exceeds the minimum stand-
     8  ards established by the municipal police training council in the use  of
     9  deadly physical force and firearms, and annually receives instruction in
    10  the  use of deadly physical force and firearms that meets or exceeds the
    11  minimum standards established by the municipal police training  council.
    12  All  employers  of  police  officers  shall  conduct, or provide through
    13  another organization, such training required by  this  subdivision  with
    14  sufficient  frequency to ensure there is no impact on a police officer's
    15  on-duty employment due to lack of available training. A  police  officer
    16  shall  not be transferred from his or her precinct, command, assignment,
    17  post, squad, or tour of duty as a result of such employer's  failure  to
    18  provide  the training required under this subdivision. In addition, such
    19  employer's failure to provide the training required under this  subdivi-
    20  sion  shall  not  impair  a  police officer's ability to carry a firearm
    21  while off-duty.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    23  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00419-02-7