Bill Text: NY A10697 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits members of the state police, police officers, and peace officers from intentionally covering their badges.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-01 - referred to codes [A10697 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10697-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10697

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 1, 2020
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to prohibiting members of
          the state police, police officers,  and  peace  officers  from  inten-
          tionally covering their badges

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

     1    Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section  214-g
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  214-g.  Display  of  badge. 1. No sworn member of the state police,
     4  while acting in his or her official capacity as a sworn  member  of  the
     5  state  police, shall intentionally cover his or her badge so that his or
     6  her identification is not visible.
     7    2. The division of state police shall impose a fine  of  five  hundred
     8  dollars  upon  any  sworn  member of the state police who is reported to
     9  have violated the provisions of subdivision one  of  this  section,  for
    10  each such violation.
    11    3.  The superintendent shall create a telephone number, which shall be
    12  posted on the division's website, which citizens may call  to  report  a
    13  sworn  member  of the state police being in violation of subdivision one
    14  of this section.
    15    § 2. The executive law is amended by adding a  new  section  837-w  to
    16  read as follows:
    17    §  837-w.  Display  of  badge.  1. No police officer or peace officer,
    18  while acting in his or her official capacity  as  a  police  officer  or
    19  peace officer, shall intentionally cover his or her badge so that his or
    20  her identification is not visible.
    21    2.  The  division  of criminal justice services shall impose a fine of
    22  five hundred dollars upon any police officer or  peace  officer  who  is
    23  reported  to  have  violated  the  provisions of subdivision one of this
    24  section, for each such violation.
    25    3. The commissioner shall create a telephone number,  which  shall  be
    26  posted  on  the  division's website, which citizens may call to report a
    27  police officer or peace officer being in violation of subdivision one of
    28  this section.
    29    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16754-01-0