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Assembly Bill A5895

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Requires the municipal police training council to promulgate rules and regulations regarding psychological evaluations for certain members of a police force

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2017-A5895 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1083
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §840, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A9395, S6853
2013-2014: A2056, S942
2015-2016: A7311, S1418
2019-2020: A2152, S1027
2021-2022: A6803, A9261
2023-2024: A1367

2017-A5895 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the municipal police training council to promulgate rules and regulations regarding psychological evaluations for certain members of the police force of a city with a population of one million or more.

2017-A5895 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5895
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 17, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. PICHARDO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN  ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring the munici-
   pal  police  training  council  to  promulgate  regulations  regarding
   psychological evaluations

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section  840  of  the  executive  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter 66 and such section as renumbered by chapter 603 of
 the laws of 1973, is amended to read as follows:
   2. A. The council shall promulgate, and may from time to  time  amend,
 such  rules  and  regulations  prescribing  height,  weight and physical
 fitness requirements for  eligibility  of  persons  for  provisional  or
 permanent  appointment  in the competitive class of the civil service as
 police officers of any county, city, town, village or police district as
 it deems necessary and proper for the efficient  performance  of  police
 duties.
   B.  THE COUNCIL, IN ADDITION TO THE RULES AND REGULATIONS SET FORTH IN
 PARAGRAPH A OF THIS SUBDIVISION, SHALL PROMULGATE, AND MAY FROM TIME  TO
 TIME  AMEND, SUCH RULES AND REGULATIONS, REQUIRING EVERY POLICE OFFICER,
 APPOINTED IN THE COMPETITIVE CLASS OF THE SERVICE, FOR ANY CITY  WITH  A
 POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE, TO UNDERGO A PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION
 UPON  ENTRY  INTO SUCH SERVICE, AND UPON EVERY THIRD YEAR THEREAFTER, TO
 DETERMINE WHETHER SUCH OFFICER HAS  POST-TRAUMATIC  STRESS  DISORDER  OR
 ANGER MANAGEMENT ISSUES, WHICH MAY AFFECT HIS OR HER ABILITY TO SERVE AS
 A  POLICE OFFICER, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVISION
 SHALL NOT APPLY TO POLICE OFFICERS WHO ARE NOT  ASSIGNED  TO  PRECINCTS,
 WHO  ARE  NOT  ASSIGNED TO ACTIVE DUTY ON PATROL OR WHO SUPERVISE POLICE
 PERSONNEL WHO ARE ASSIGNED TO ACTIVE DUTY ON PATROL.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02114-01-7

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