Bill Text: NY A10614 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the law enforcement misconduct investigative office.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-06-16 - SIGNED CHAP.106 [A10614 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10614-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10614

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 9, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Taylor) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to  the  law  enforcement
          misconduct investigative office

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 75 of the executive law, as  added
     2  by  a chapter of the laws of 2020 amending the executive law, the public
     3  authorities law and chapter 154 of the laws of 1921 relating to the port
     4  authority of New York and New Jersey relating to  establishing  the  law
     5  enforcement  misconduct investigative office, as proposed in legislative
     6  bill numbers S.3595-C and A.10002-B, is amended to read as follows:
     7    1. Jurisdiction.  This  section  shall,  subject  to  the  limitations
     8  contained  in  this  section, confer upon the law enforcement misconduct
     9  investigative office jurisdiction over all  covered  agencies.  For  the
    10  purposes  of this section "covered agency" means [a police] an agency of
    11  any political subdivision within the state[,  including  authorities  or
    12  agencies]  maintaining  a  police  force or police forces of individuals
    13  defined as police officers in section 1.20  of  the  criminal  procedure
    14  law,  provided  however,  covered  agency  does  not include any agency,
    15  public authority, or other entity under the jurisdiction  of  the  state
    16  inspector  general  pursuant to article four-A of the executive law, the
    17  metropolitan transportation  authority  inspector  general  pursuant  to
    18  section  one thousand two hundred seventy-nine of the public authorities
    19  law,  or  the  port  authority inspector general pursuant to chapter one
    20  hundred fifty-four of the laws of  nineteen  twenty-one.    [Wherever  a
    21  covered  agency  is  a  board,  commission, a public authority or public
    22  benefit corporation, the head of the agency is the chairperson thereof.]
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
    24  manner  as a chapter of the laws of 2020 amending the executive law, the
    25  public authorities law and chapter 154 of the laws of 1921  relating  to
    26  the  port  authority of New York and New Jersey relating to establishing
    27  the law enforcement misconduct  investigative  office,  as  proposed  in
    28  legislative bill numbers S.3595-C and A.10002-B, takes effect.

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