Bill Text: NY S01982 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the completion of training requirements for sheriffs and undersheriffs.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-14 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S01982 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S01982-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1982

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 14, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. HARCKHAM, ASHBY, O'MARA, ROLISON, STEC, WEBB -- read
          twice  and  ordered  printed,  and when printed to be committed to the
          Committee on Local Government

        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to the completion
          of training requirements for sheriffs and undersheriffs

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision 1 of section 209-q of the
     2  general municipal law, as amended by chapter 735 of the laws of 1988, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general,  special  or  local
     5  law or charter to the contrary, no person shall, after July first, nine-
     6  teen hundred sixty, receive an original appointment on a permanent basis
     7  as  a  police  officer  of  any  county,  city,  town, village or police
     8  district unless such person has previously been awarded a certificate by
     9  the executive director of the municipal police training council  created
    10  under  article thirty-five of the executive law, attesting to [his] such
    11  person's satisfactory completion of an approved municipal  police  basic
    12  training program; and every person who is appointed on a temporary basis
    13  or  for  a  probationary  term  or  on other than a permanent basis as a
    14  police officer of any county, city, town,  village  or  police  district
    15  shall  forfeit  [his]  their  position  as  such unless [he] such person
    16  previously has satisfactorily completed, or within the  time  prescribed
    17  by  regulations  promulgated  by  the governor pursuant to section eight
    18  hundred forty-two of the  executive  law,  satisfactorily  completes,  a
    19  municipal  police  basic  training program for temporary or probationary
    20  police officers and is awarded a certificate by such director  attesting
    21  thereto.    An elected or appointed sheriff or undersheriff shall not be
    22  subject to the training requirements of this section.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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