Bill Text: NY S03515 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires police officers to maintain liability insurance; excludes police officers from provisions requiring defense and indemnification of state officers and employees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S03515 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03515-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3515

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 31, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- 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 requiring
          police officers to maintain liability  insurance;  and  to  amend  the
          public  officers  law,  in  relation to excluding police officers from
          provisions requiring defense and indemnification of state officers and
          employees

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

     1    Section  1.  The  general  municipal  law  is  amended by adding a new
     2  section 52-a to read as follows:
     3    § 52-a. Liability insurance for police officers. Each  police  officer
     4  employed  by  a  city,  county, town, village, authority or agency shall
     5  obtain a policy of liability insurance. Each  appointed  police  officer
     6  must  provide  proof  of  liability  insurance coverage required by this
     7  section and must maintain continuous coverage throughout the  course  of
     8  employment  as  a  police  officer.  Such  insurance  shall cover claims
     9  against such officer for acts or omissions during  any  period  of  time
    10  that such officer is performing duties within the scope of employment of
    11  such city, county, town, village, authority or agency. The city, county,
    12  town,  village,  authority  or  agency  shall cover the base rate of the
    13  policy required by this section.
    14    § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 17 of the public officers law is amended
    15  by adding a new paragraph (a-1) to read as follows:
    16    (a-1) For the purposes of this section, the term "employee" shall  not
    17  include any police officer or peace officer as such terms are defined in
    18  sections  1.20 and 2.10 of the criminal procedure law and section 14-102
    19  of the administrative code of the city of New York.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06437-01-3