Bill Text: NY A07867 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to a training course and curriculum on the handling, investigation and response procedures concerning reports of domestic violence; requires law enforcement and judicial employees to participate in such training; makes related provisions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A07867 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07867-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7867

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 7, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to a training course  and
          curriculum  on  the  handling,  investigation  and response procedures
          concerning reports of domestic violence

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

     1    Section 1. Section 837 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 24 to read as follows:
     3    24.  (a)  (i) The division shall develop and approve a training course
     4  and curriculum on the handling, investigation  and  response  procedures
     5  concerning  reports  of  domestic  violence.  This  training  course and
     6  curriculum shall be reviewed at least every two years  and  modified  by
     7  the  division  from time to time as need may require. The division shall
     8  distribute the curriculum to all local police agencies.
     9    (ii) The attorney general shall be responsible for ensuring  that  all
    10  law  enforcement  officers attend initial training within ninety days of
    11  appointment or transfer and annual inservice training of at  least  four
    12  hours as described in this section.
    13    (b)  (i)  The  chief  administrator  of  the  courts shall develop and
    14  approve a training course and a curriculum  on  the  handling,  investi-
    15  gation  and  response  procedures  concerning  allegations  of  domestic
    16  violence. This training course shall be  reviewed  at  least  every  two
    17  years  and  modified  by  the  chief judge from time to time as need may
    18  require.
    19    (ii) The chief administrator of the courts shall  be  responsible  for
    20  ensuring  that all judges and judicial personnel attend initial training
    21  within ninety days of  appointment  or  transfer  and  annual  inservice
    22  training as described in this section.
    23    (iii)  The  division  and  the chief administrator of the courts shall
    24  provide that all training on the handling of domestic  violence  matters

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09757-01-3
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     1  shall  include information concerning the impact of domestic violence on
     2  society, the dynamics of domestic violence, the statutory and  case  law
     3  concerning  domestic  violence,  the  necessary elements of a protection
     4  order, policies and procedures as promulgated or ordered by the attorney
     5  general  or  the  court  of  appeals, and the use of available community
     6  resources, support services, available sanctions and treatment  options.
     7  Law  enforcement  agencies shall: (1) establish domestic crisis teams or
     8  participate in established domestic crisis teams, and  (2)  shall  train
     9  individual  officers  in methods of dealing with domestic violence.  The
    10  teams may include social workers, clergy or  other  persons  trained  in
    11  counseling,   crisis  intervention  or  in  the  treatment  of  domestic
    12  violence.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    14  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
    15  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    16  tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
    17  completed on or before such effective date.