Bill Text: NY A06370 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires all police vehicles to be equipped with bulletproof or bullet resistant glass on and after January 1, 2025; requires existing police cars to be retrofitted with bulletproof or bullet resistant glass.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A06370 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06370-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6370

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 5, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation

        AN  ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to bulletproof
          glass on police vehicles

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  375 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 55 to read as follows:
     3    55. a. On and after  January  first,  two  thousand  twenty-five,  any
     4  police  vehicle purchased by the state, a public authority, or any muni-
     5  cipality shall be equipped with bulletproof or bullet resistant glass.
     6    b. The superintendent or chief of police, or other person  responsible
     7  for the supervision and maintenance of a fleet of police vehicles, shall
     8  cause any police vehicle that is in use as of the effective date of this
     9  subdivision  to  be  retrofitted  with  bulletproof  or bullet resistant
    10  glass. Such person may cause such glass replacement to be performed on a
    11  staggered basis so that all police vehicles are not out  of  service  at
    12  the same time.
    13    c.  The  commissioner of the division of criminal justice services, in
    14  consultation with the commissioner of motor vehicles,  shall  promulgate
    15  rules and regulations determining the specifications that must be met to
    16  consider any glass as "bulletproof" or "bullet resistant".
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10598-01-3