Senate Bill S5282

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Exempts certain officers of the departments of correction and sanitation of the city of New York from training requirements for security guards

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-S5282 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4502
Current Committee:
Assembly Economic Development
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §89-n, Gen Bus L; amd §2.10, CP L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S7545, A10468
2013-2014: S3606, A4934
2015-2016: S2821, A7852
2019-2020: S422, A5817
2021-2022: S4499, A4107
2023-2024: S2806

2017-S5282 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Exempts certain officers of the department of correction and the department of sanitation of the city of New York from training requirements for security guards; designates correction officers of New York city as peace officers.

2017-S5282 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S5282 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5282
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 20, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. LANZA, GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and
   when printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  general  business law, in relation to exempting
   certain officers of the departments of correction  and  sanitation  of
   the  city  of New York from training requirements for security guards;
   and to amend the criminal procedure law, in  relation  to  designating
   correction officers of New York city as peace officers
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraphs a, f and g of subdivision 4 of section  89-n  of
 the  general business law, paragraphs a and f as amended and paragraph g
 as added by chapter 221 of the laws of 2003, are amended and a new para-
 graph h is added to read as follows:
   a. a correction officer of any state correctional facility OR A MEMBER
 OF THE UNIFORMED CORRECTION FORCE OF THE NEW  YORK  CITY  DEPARTMENT  OF
 CORRECTION  having the powers of a peace officer pursuant to subdivision
 twenty-five of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law;
   f. a police officer as defined in paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d),  (e),
 (f),  (j),  (k),  (l), (o) and (p) of subdivision thirty-four of section
 1.20 of the criminal procedure  law  who  has  been  retired  from  such
 employment for a period not to exceed ten years, provided, however, that
 a retired police officer who has been retired from such employment for a
 period  in excess of ten years shall be required to provide proof to his
 or her security guard employer of his or her satisfactory completion  of
 an  eight hour annual in-service training course approved by the commis-
 sioner, and provided further, however, that a retired police officer who
 will be required by his or  her  security  guard  employer  to  carry  a
 firearm  or will be authorized to have access to a firearm shall provide
 to such employer proof of  his  or  her  satisfactory  completion  of  a
 forty-seven  hour  firearms training course approved by the commissioner
 and, if such firearms training course has not been completed within  one
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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