STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2695--B 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 -- 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 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 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 or 21 undersheriff shall not be subject to the training requirements of this 22 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. LBD06930-04-3