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                                   1431
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 17, 2023
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 Introduced  by M. of A. AUBRY -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law and the civil service law, in relation
   to providing for police training high schools in certain  city  school
   districts and making provisions for their graduates' further education
   and recruitment

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The section heading of section 2555 of the  education  law,
 such  section  as  renumbered  by  chapter  762  of the laws of 1950, is
 amended and a new subdivision 4 is added to read as follows:
   Kindergartens, nursery [and], night schools AND POLICE  TRAINING  HIGH
 SCHOOLS.
   4.  A.  EACH SCHOOL DISTRICT SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ARTICLE
 MAY ESTABLISH A POLICE TRAINING HIGH SCHOOL OR POLICE  TRAINING  PROGRAM
 IN  AN EXISTING HIGH SCHOOL WITHIN ITS DISTRICT, EXCEPT THAT THE CITY OF
 NEW YORK MAY ESTABLISH SUCH A HIGH SCHOOL IN EACH OF ITS BOROUGHS.  SUCH
 HIGH  SCHOOLS  OR  PROGRAMS  SHALL SERVE STUDENTS IN GRADES NINE THROUGH
 TWELVE AND SHALL PROVIDE,  IN  ADDITION  TO  THE  STANDARD  HIGH  SCHOOL
 CURRICULUM  OTHERWISE  PRESCRIBED BY LAW, SPECIALIZED COURSES CONTAINING
 EDUCATION AND TRAINING TO PREPARE STUDENTS FOR ADMISSION TO POLICE ACAD-
 EMIES AND CAREERS AS POLICE OFFICERS.
   B. GUIDELINES FOR THE CURRICULUM FOR SUCH POLICE EDUCATION AND  TRAIN-
 ING  COURSES  SHALL  BE  PRESCRIBED BY THE COMMISSIONER, IN CONSULTATION
 WITH THE DIVISION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE SERVICES AND THE MUNICIPAL  POLICE
 TRAINING  COUNCIL.   EACH HIGH SCHOOL OR PROGRAM MAY FURTHER DEVELOP ITS
 OWN CURRICULUM IN CONSULTATION WITH A UNIT OF THE  STATE  UNIVERSITY  OF
 NEW  YORK  OR  THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK HAVING A CRIMINAL JUSTICE
 SCHOOL OR PROGRAM.
   C. SUCH HIGH SCHOOLS OR PROGRAMS SHALL SERVE STUDENTS LIVING IN POLICE
 PRECINCTS HAVING HIGH JUVENILE  DELINQUENCY  RATES.  SCHOOL  AUTHORITIES
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 SHALL RECRUIT STUDENTS FROM SUCH AREAS. EACH CLASS SHALL CONTAIN NO MORE
 THAN  TWENTY  STUDENTS, AND EACH HIGH SCHOOL OR PROGRAM SHALL CONTAIN NO
 MORE THAN TWENTY CLASSES.
   D. THE POLICE TRAINING CURRICULUM SHALL INCLUDE A SUMMER SCHOOL COMPO-
 NENT.  THIS COMPONENT SHALL BE OFFERED AT ONE OR MORE OF THE CAMPUSES OF
 THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK OR THE  STATE  UNIVERSITY  OF  NEW  YORK
 HAVING  PROGRAMS  IN  CRIMINAL  JUSTICE. NECESSARY ARRANGEMENTS THEREFOR
 SHALL BE MADE BY THE COMMISSIONER IN CONSULTATION WITH  THE  CHANCELLORS
 OF  SUCH  UNIVERSITIES.  THE COMMISSIONER MAY, IN HIS OR HER DISCRETION,
 ARRANGE FOR A SUMMER SCHOOL COMPONENT  TO  BE  OFFERED  AT  A  COMMUNITY
 COLLEGE.
   §  2.  The  section  heading  of section 2514 of the education law, as
 added by chapter 762 of the laws of 1950, is amended and a new  subdivi-
 sion 4 is added to read as follows:
   Kindergartens,  nursery  [and], night schools AND POLICE TRAINING HIGH
 SCHOOLS.
   4. A. EACH SCHOOL DISTRICT SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS  ARTICLE,
 IN  A  CITY  HAVING  A  POPULATION  OF ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND OR MORE, MAY
 ESTABLISH A POLICE TRAINING HIGH SCHOOL OR POLICE TRAINING  PROGRAMS  IN
 AN EXISTING HIGH SCHOOL WITHIN ITS DISTRICT, EXCEPT THAT THE CITY OF NEW
 YORK MAY ESTABLISH SUCH A HIGH SCHOOL IN EACH OF ITS BOROUGHS. SUCH HIGH
 SCHOOLS  OR  PROGRAMS SHALL SERVE STUDENTS IN GRADES NINE THROUGH TWELVE
 AND SHALL PROVIDE, IN ADDITION TO THE STANDARD  HIGH  SCHOOL  CURRICULUM
 OTHERWISE  PRESCRIBED  BY  LAW, SPECIALIZED COURSES CONTAINING EDUCATION
 AND TRAINING TO PREPARE STUDENTS FOR ADMISSION TO POLICE  ACADEMIES  AND
 CAREERS AS POLICE OFFICERS.
   B.  GUIDELINES FOR THE CURRICULUM FOR SUCH POLICE EDUCATION AND TRAIN-
 ING COURSES SHALL BE PRESCRIBED BY  THE  COMMISSIONER,  IN  CONSULTATION
 WITH  THE DIVISION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE SERVICES AND THE MUNICIPAL POLICE
 TRAINING COUNCIL.  EACH HIGH SCHOOL OR PROGRAM MAY FURTHER  DEVELOP  ITS
 OWN  CURRICULUM  IN  CONSULTATION WITH A UNIT OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF
 NEW YORK OR THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK HAVING  A  CRIMINAL  JUSTICE
 SCHOOL OR PROGRAM.
   C. SUCH HIGH SCHOOLS OR PROGRAMS SHALL SERVE STUDENTS LIVING IN POLICE
 PRECINCTS  HAVING  HIGH  JUVENILE  DELINQUENCY RATES. SCHOOL AUTHORITIES
 SHALL RECRUIT STUDENTS FROM SUCH AREAS. EACH CLASS SHALL CONTAIN NO MORE
 THAN TWENTY STUDENTS, AND EACH HIGH SCHOOL OR PROGRAM SHALL  CONTAIN  NO
 MORE THAN TWENTY CLASSES.
   D. THE POLICE TRAINING CURRICULUM SHALL INCLUDE A SUMMER SCHOOL COMPO-
 NENT.  THIS COMPONENT SHALL BE OFFERED AT ONE OR MORE OF THE CAMPUSES OF
 THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK OR THE  STATE  UNIVERSITY  OF  NEW  YORK
 HAVING  PROGRAMS  IN  CRIMINAL  JUSTICE. NECESSARY ARRANGEMENTS THEREFOR
 SHALL BE MADE BY THE COMMISSIONER IN CONSULTATION WITH  THE  CHANCELLORS
 OF  SUCH  UNIVERSITIES.  THE COMMISSIONER MAY, IN HIS OR HER DISCRETION,
 ARRANGE FOR A SUMMER SCHOOL COMPONENT  TO  BE  OFFERED  AT  A  COMMUNITY
 COLLEGE.
   §  3. The education law is amended by adding a new section 319 to read
 as follows:
   § 319. POLICE OFFICER TRAINING CORPS (POTC). 1. THE  COMMISSIONER,  IN
 COOPERATION  WITH THE CHANCELLORS OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AND
 THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK SHALL ESTABLISH A POTC  PROGRAM  TO  BE
 OFFERED  AT  EACH  COLLEGE  OF  SUCH UNIVERSITIES OFFERING UNDERGRADUATE
 PROGRAMS IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE.
   2. SUCH POTC PROGRAM SHALL BE BASED ON THE  RESERVE  OFFICER  TRAINING
 CORPS (ROTC) OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES.
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   §  4.  The  education  law is amended by adding a new section 355-f to
 read as follows:
   §  355-F.  SPECIAL  POLICE  OFFICER  EDUCATION AND TRAINING POWERS AND
 DUTIES. 1. THE STATE UNIVERSITY SHALL COOPERATE WITH THE COMMISSIONER IN
 ESTABLISHING AND IMPLEMENTING THE POLICE TRAINING SUMMER  SCHOOL  COMPO-
 NENT  PROVIDED  FOR  IN  SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED
 FOURTEEN OR SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION TWENTY-FIVE  HUNDRED  FIFTY-FIVE
 OF THIS CHAPTER.
   2.  THE  STATE  UNIVERSITY  SHALL  COOPERATE  WITH THE COMMISSIONER IN
 ESTABLISHING A POLICE OFFICER TRAINING  CORPS  (POTC)  PROVIDED  FOR  IN
 SECTION THREE HUNDRED NINETEEN OF THIS TITLE.
   3. IN THE CONSIDERATION OF APPLICATIONS FOR ADMISSION TO UNDERGRADUATE
 CRIMINAL  JUSTICE  PROGRAMS,  AN  APPLICANT'S  GRADUATION  FROM A POLICE
 TRAINING HIGH SCHOOL OR PROGRAM ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION FOUR
 OF SECTION TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED FOURTEEN OR SUBDIVISION FOUR  OF  SECTION
 TWENTY-FIVE  HUNDRED  FIFTY-FIVE  OF THIS CHAPTER SHALL BE REGARDED AS A
 FACTOR WEIGHING IN FAVOR OF ADMISSION.
   § 5. The education law is amended by adding a new  section  6204-b  to
 read as follows:
   §  6204-B.  SPECIAL  POLICE  OFFICER EDUCATION AND TRAINING POWERS AND
 DUTIES. 1. THE CITY UNIVERSITY SHALL COOPERATE WITH THE COMMISSIONER  IN
 ESTABLISHING  AND  IMPLEMENTING THE POLICE TRAINING SUMMER SCHOOL COMPO-
 NENT PROVIDED FOR IN SUBDIVISION FOUR  OF  SECTION  TWENTY-FIVE  HUNDRED
 FOURTEEN  OR  SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED FIFTY-FIVE
 OF THIS CHAPTER.
   2. THE CITY UNIVERSITY SHALL COOPERATE WITH THE COMMISSIONER IN ESTAB-
 LISHING A POLICE OFFICER TRAINING CORPS (POTC) PROVIDED FOR  IN  SECTION
 THREE HUNDRED NINETEEN OF THIS CHAPTER.
   3.  IN  THE  CONSIDERATION  OF  APPLICATIONS FOR ADMISSION TO JOHN JAY
 COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE OR ANY OTHER UNDERGRADUATE CRIMINAL  JUSTICE
 PROGRAMS,  AN  APPLICANT'S GRADUATION FROM A POLICE TRAINING HIGH SCHOOL
 ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION TWENTY-FIVE  HUNDRED
 FOURTEEN  OR  SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED FIFTY-FIVE
 OF THIS CHAPTER SHALL BE REGARDED AS  A  FACTOR  WEIGHING  IN  FAVOR  OF
 ADMISSION.
   §  6.  Article  4  of the civil service law is amended by adding a new
 title C to read as follows:
                                  TITLE C
                 SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR POLICE RECRUITMENT
 SECTION 67. SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR POLICE RECRUITMENT.
   § 67. SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR POLICE RECRUITMENT. 1. (A) THE PROVISIONS
 OF THIS SECTION SHALL SUPERSEDE  ANY  INCONSISTENT  PROVISIONS  OF  THIS
 ARTICLE AND SHALL APPLY TO THE RECRUITMENT OF PERSONS TO FILL ALL AVAIL-
 ABLE  POSITIONS  AS  POLICE  OFFICERS,  AS  THE TERM "POLICE OFFICER" IS
 DEFINED BY SUBDIVISION THIRTY-FOUR  OF  SECTION  1.20  OF  THE  CRIMINAL
 PROCEDURE  LAW, IN ANY CITY WITH A POPULATION OF ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND OR
 MORE WHICH HAS ADOPTED A LOCAL LAW WHICH GRANTS  ADDITIONAL  CREDITS  IN
 COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS FOR ORIGINAL APPOINTMENT AS DESCRIBED IN SUBDI-
 VISION TWO OF THIS SECTION.
   (B)  FOR  THE  PURPOSES  OF  THIS SECTION, THE TERM "GRADUATE" MEANS A
 PERSON GRADUATED FROM A POLICE TRAINING HIGH SCHOOL  OR  PROGRAM  ESTAB-
 LISHED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED FOUR-
 TEEN  OR  SUBDIVISION  FOUR OF SECTION TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED FIFTY-FIVE OF
 THE EDUCATION LAW.
   2.  ADDITIONAL  CREDITS  IN  COMPETITIVE  EXAMINATIONS  FOR   ORIGINAL
 APPOINTMENT.
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   (A)  IN  ANY  CITY  WITH  A POPULATION OF ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND OR MORE
 WHICH HAS ADOPTED A LOCAL LAW WHICH GRANTS ADDITIONAL CREDIT IN  COMPET-
 ITIVE  NOMINATIONS  FOR  ORIGINAL APPOINTMENT TO GRADUATES AS DEFINED IN
 PARAGRAPH (B) OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION, ON ALL ELIGIBLE  LISTS
 RESULTING FROM COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS, THE NAMES OF ELIGIBLES SHALL BE
 ENTERED  IN  THE ORDER OF THEIR RESPECTIVE FINAL EARNED RATINGS ON EXAM-
 INATION, WITH THE NAME OF THE ELIGIBLE WITH  THE  HIGHEST  FINAL  EARNED
 RATING AT THE HEAD OF SUCH LIST, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT FOR THE PURPOSE
 OF DETERMINING FINAL EARNED RATINGS, SUCH GRADUATES SHALL BE ENTITLED TO
 RECEIVE FIVE POINTS ADDITIONAL IN A COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR ORIGINAL
 APPOINTMENT.
   (B)  SUCH  ADDITIONAL CREDIT SHALL BE ADDED TO THE FINAL EARNED RATING
 OF SUCH GRADUATE AFTER HE OR SHE HAS QUALIFIED IN THE COMPETITIVE  EXAM-
 INATION  AND  SHALL  BE GRANTED ONLY AT THE TIME OF ESTABLISHMENT OF THE
 RESULTING ELIGIBLE LIST.
   3. APPLICATION FOR ADDITIONAL CREDIT; PROOF OF ELIGIBILITY; ESTABLISH-
 MENT OF ELIGIBLE LIST. ANY CANDIDATE, BELIEVING HIMSELF OR HERSELF ENTI-
 TLED TO ADDITIONAL CREDIT IN A COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION AS PROVIDED HERE-
 IN, MAY MAKE APPLICATION FOR SUCH ADDITIONAL CREDIT AT ANY TIME  BETWEEN
 THE  DATE  OF HIS OR HER APPLICATION FOR EXAMINATION AND THE DATE OF THE
 ESTABLISHMENT OF THE RESULTING ELIGIBLE LIST. SUCH CANDIDATES  SHALL  BE
 ALLOWED A PERIOD OF NOT LESS THAN TWO MONTHS FROM THE DATE OF THE FILING
 OF  HIS  OR  HER  APPLICATION  FOR  EXAMINATION IN WHICH TO ESTABLISH BY
 APPROPRIATE DOCUMENTARY PROOF HIS OR HER ELIGIBILITY  TO  RECEIVE  ADDI-
 TIONAL  CREDIT  UNDER  THIS  SECTION.  AT ANY TIME AFTER TWO MONTHS HAVE
 ELAPSED SINCE THE FINAL DATE FOR FILING APPLICATIONS FOR  A  COMPETITIVE
 EXAMINATION  FOR  ORIGINAL APPOINTMENT, THE ELIGIBLE LIST RESULTING FROM
 SUCH EXAMINATION MAY BE ESTABLISHED, NOTWITHSTANDING  THE  FACT  THAT  A
 GRADUATE  WHO  HAS APPLIED FOR ADDITIONAL CREDIT HAS FAILED TO ESTABLISH
 HIS OR HER ELIGIBILITY TO RECEIVE SUCH ADDITIONAL  CREDIT.  A  CANDIDATE
 WHO  FAILS  TO  ESTABLISH,  BY APPROPRIATE DOCUMENTARY PROOF, HIS OR HER
 ELIGIBILITY TO RECEIVE ADDITIONAL CREDIT BY THE TIME AN ELIGIBLE LIST IS
 ESTABLISHED SHALL NOT THEREAFTER BE GRANTED ADDITIONAL  CREDIT  ON  SUCH
 ELIGIBLE LIST.
   4.  THE ADDITIONAL CREDIT GRANTED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION SHALL BE IN
 ADDITION TO ANY OTHER ADDITIONAL CREDIT THAT MAY BE AUTHORIZED  PURSUANT
 TO ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL OR LOCAL LAW.
   5.    IN ADDITION TO CONSIDERATION OF COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION RESULTS,
 IN THE RECRUITMENT OF  POLICE  OFFICERS,  ADDITIONAL  CONSIDERATION  AND
 WEIGHT SHALL BE ACCORDED TO GRADUATES AS FOLLOWS:
   (A) A GRADUATE'S STATUS AS AN APPLICANT WITH PERTINENT AND SPECIALIZED
 TRAINING  SHALL  BE  CONSIDERED  AS  ADDITIONAL  EVIDENCE OF FITNESS FOR
 APPOINTMENT;
   (B) A GRADUATE'S SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF AN UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM  IN
 CRIMINAL  JUSTICE  SHALL BE CONSIDERED AS ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE OF FITNESS
 FOR APPOINTMENT; AND
   (C) A GRADUATE'S EMPLOYMENT BY A POLICE  DEPARTMENT  OR  AGENCY  IN  A
 CIVILIAN  OR  NON-SWORN  CAPACITY  SHALL  BE  CONSIDERED  AS  ADDITIONAL
 EVIDENCE OF FITNESS FOR APPOINTMENT.
   § 7. This act shall take effect immediately.