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Senate Bill S6717

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Establishes Briana's law requiring biennial CPR training for peace officers

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2015-S6717 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4364
Current Committee:
Senate Local Government
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §208-h, Gen Muni L; add §233, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A10142
2017-2018: S3165, A2115

2015-S6717 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes Briana's law requiring biennial CPR training for police officers.

2015-S6717 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S6717 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  6717

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 9, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. MARTINS -- 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  and  the  executive  law,  in
  relation  to requiring police officers to be retrained in cardiopulmo-
  nary resuscitation every two years

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
"Briana's Law".
  S 2. The general municipal law is amended  by  adding  a  new  section
208-h to read as follows:
  S   208-H.   BIENNIAL  POLICE  OFFICER  CARDIOPULMONARY  RESUSCITATION
RETRAINING. EVERY POLICE OFFICER IN A  CITY,  COUNTY,  TOWN  OR  VILLAGE
SHALL, EVERY TWO YEARS BE:
  1.  RETRAINED  IN CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION AS DEFINED BY SUBDIVI-
SION SIX OF SECTION SIX HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE OF THE GENERAL BUSINESS  LAW;
AND
  2.  REQUIRED TO DEMONSTRATE THE SATISFACTORY COMPLETION OF TRAINING IN
CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION.
  S 3. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 233 to  read
as follows:
  S  233.  BIENNIAL  STATE  POLICE OFFICER CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION
RETRAINING. EVERY STATE POLICE OFFICER SHALL, EVERY TWO YEARS BE:
  1. RETRAINED IN CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION AS DEFINED  BY  SUBDIVI-
SION  SIX OF SECTION SIX HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE OF THE GENERAL BUSINESS LAW;
AND
  2. REQUIRED TO DEMONSTRATE THE SATISFACTORY COMPLETION OF TRAINING  IN
CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION.
  S  4.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
have become a law.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD03002-08-6

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