Assembly Bill A221

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the training requirements for peace officers

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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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2019-A221 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7113
Current Committee:
Assembly Economic Development
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §89-n, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A5256, S4930
2017-2018: A345, S3153
2021-2022: A560, S8393

2019-A221 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the training requirements for peace officers; creates a waiver of these requirements for federal law enforcement officers.

2019-A221 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    221
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 9, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BRAUNSTEIN  -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Economic Development
 
 AN ACT to amend the  general  business  law,  in  relation  to  training
   requirements
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraphs f and g of subdivision 4 of section 89-n of  the
 general business law, paragraph f as amended and paragraph g as added by
 chapter  221  of  the laws of 2003, are amended and a new paragraph h is
 added to read as follows:
   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
 year  prior to such employment, satisfactory completion of an additional
 eight hour annual firearms in-service training course  approved  by  the
 commissioner,  such  training  course to be completed at least annually;
 [or]
   g. a peace officer as defined in subdivisions two, twenty and  twenty-
 five and paragraphs a and b of subdivision twenty-one of section 2.10 of

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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