Bill Text: NY S02695 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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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: (Engrossed) 2024-05-20 - referred to local governments [S02695 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02695-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2695--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 24, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. HARCKHAM, O'MARA, ROLISON -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the  Committee  on  Local
          Government -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

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

          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  satis-
    11  factory  completion  of  an  approved  municipal  police  basic training
    12  program; and every person who is appointed on a temporary basis or for a
    13  probationary term or on other than a permanent basis as a police officer
    14  of any county, city, town, village or police district shall forfeit  his
    15  position  as  such unless he previously has satisfactorily completed, or
    16  within the time prescribed by regulations promulgated  by  the  governor
    17  pursuant to section eight hundred forty-two of the executive law, satis-
    18  factorily  completes,  a  municipal  police  basic  training program for
    19  temporary or probationary police officers and is awarded  a  certificate
    20  by  such  director  attesting thereto.   An elected or appointed sheriff
    21  shall not be subject to the training requirements of this section.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06930-02-3