NY State Senate Bill 2021-S341A

Senate Bill S341A

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requires the inclusion of diversity and inclusion training in the basic training and pre-employment course curricula for police, firefighters, correction officers and first responders

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Jan 05, 2022	referred to finance
Jun 02, 2021	print number 341a
Jun 02, 2021	amend (t) and recommit to finance
Jan 06, 2021	referred to finance

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2021-S341 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A1184
Current Committee:: Senate Finance
Law Section:: Executive Law
Laws Affected:: Add §214-g, Exec L; add §208-i, amd §204-d, Gen Muni L; add §155-a, Town L; add §22-b, Cor L; amd §3002, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2019-2020: S8579, A10601
2023-2024: S1211, A7449

2021-S341 - Summary

Requires the inclusion of diversity and inclusion training in the basic training and pre-employment course curricula for state police officers and municipal police officers and sheriffs, members of fire departments and companies, corrections officers, first responders, emergency medical technicians and advanced emergency medical technicians.

2021-S341 - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S341

SPONSOR: PERSAUD
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the executive law, the general municipal law and the
town law, in relation to requiring the inclusion of diversity and inclu-
sion training in the basic training and pre-employment course curric-
ulums for state police officers and municipal police officers and sher-
iffs; to amend the general municipal law, in relation to requiring the
inclusion of diversity and inclusion training in the basic training and
pre-employment course curricula for members of fire departments and
companies; to amend the correction law, in relation to requiring the
inclusion of diversity and inclusion training in the basic training and
pre-employment course curricula for correction officers; and to amend
the public health law, in relation to requiring the inclusion of diver-
sity and inclusion training in the basic training and pre-employment
course curricula for first responders, emergency medical technicians and
advanced emergency medical technicians

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

This legislation would mandate all first responder training courses
(including those for municipal police officers, State Police,
corrections officers, firefighters, and EMS) to require that 20 percent
of the overall content and courses required for these professions
consist of diversity and inclusion training. These trainings should
specifically focus on biases related to race, ethnicity, gender, sexual
orientation, religion, age, and disability, special needs, among others.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Sections 1 adds a new section 214-g to the executive law requiring the
Superintendent of the State Police to establish policies and procedures
requiring training courses for the New York State Police to include
training in the areas of diversity and inclusion, including specific
training pertaining to sensitivity to issues of race, ethnicity, gender,
sexual orientation, religion, age, and disability, special needs, among
others. The section also sets forth that training curricula on this
matter will not compromise less than 20 percent of the course curric-
ulum.

Section 2-6 adds a section to the general municipal law, the town law,
the correction law, and the public health law mandating municipal police
officer, firefighter, corrections officer, first responders, emergency
medical technicians and advanced emergency medical technicians training
courses implement the same training requirements as found in section
214-g of the executive law.

Section 7 sets forth the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Currently, the various state agencies that oversee training courses only
require minimal hours of diversity and inclusion training throughout the
entire course. This means that these individuals could spend only
approximately 3 percent of their training focused on issues related to
race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, special
needs and disability. According to a 2016 U.S.  Department of Justice,
Bureau of Justice Statics bulletin: "State and Local Law Enforcement
Training Academies, 2013", police officers typically receive about 131
hours on firearm skills and self defense; 40 hours on community policing
strategies (up from 8 hours in 2006); but only 12 hours on cultural
diversity and human relations and 9 hours on mediation and conflict
management.

Additional training will not only assist in handling racial biases, but
countless other situations that our first responders and corrections
officers find themselves in during their careers, including mental
health crises, interactions with the LGBTQ community, and domestic and
sexual abuse cases, as a few examples.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2020: 58579 Referred to Senate Rules Committee.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

To be determined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2021-S341 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    341
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. PERSAUD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, the general  municipal  law  and  the
   town  law,  in  relation  to  requiring the inclusion of diversity and
   inclusion training in the basic  training  and  pre-employment  course
   curriculums  for  state  police officers and municipal police officers
   and sheriffs; to amend the  general  municipal  law,  in  relation  to
   requiring  the  inclusion  of  diversity and inclusion training in the
   basic training and pre-employment course curricula for members of fire
   departments and companies; to amend the correction law, in relation to
   requiring the inclusion of diversity and  inclusion  training  in  the
   basic  training  and  pre-employment  course  curricula for correction
   officers; and to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring
   the inclusion of diversity and inclusion training in the basic  train-
   ing and pre-employment course curricula for first responders, emergen-
   cy medical technicians and advanced emergency medical technicians

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section  214-g
 to read as follows:
   §  214-G. TRAINING. 1. THE SUPERINTENDENT SHALL ESTABLISH POLICIES AND
 PROCEDURES REQUIRING THAT STATE POLICE BASIC TRAINING AND PRE-EMPLOYMENT
 COURSE CURRICULA INCLUDE TRAINING IN THE AREAS OF DIVERSITY  AND  INCLU-
 SION, INCLUDING TRAINING PERTAINING TO APPROPRIATE SENSITIVITY TO ISSUES
 OF  RACE, ETHNICITY, GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RELIGION, AGE AND DISA-
 BILITIES. SUCH TRAINING SHALL COMPRISE NOT LESS THAN TWENTY  PERCENT  OF
 THE  BASIC TRAINING AND PRE-EMPLOYMENT COURSE TRAINING CURRICULA. DIVER-
 SITY TRAINING SHALL BE PROVIDED BY AN ACCREDITED EDUCATOR AND/OR TRAINER
 APPROVED BY THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE STATE POLICE.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD02221-01-1

 S. 341                              2
 
   2. THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE STATE POLICE  SHALL  PROVIDE  INFORMATION
 PERTAINING  TO SUCH POLICIES AND PROCEDURES TO MUNICIPAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
 AGENCIES  AND  DEPARTMENTS,  FIRE   DEPARTMENTS,   THE   DEPARTMENT   OF
 CORRECTIONS  AND  COMMUNITY SUPERVISION AND THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH FOR
 IMPLEMENTATION OF SUCH CURRICULA BY SUCH AGENCIES AND DEPARTMENTS.
   3.  THE  SUPERINTENDENT OF THE STATE POLICE SHALL PROMULGATE RULES AND
 REGULATIONS NECESSARY TO EFFECTUATE THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION.
   § 2. The general municipal law is amended  by  adding  a  new  section
 208-i to read as follows:
   §  208-I. MANDATORY POLICE OFFICER DIVERSITY TRAINING. THE CHIEF OFFI-
 CER OF EVERY POLICE DEPARTMENT AND SHERIFF'S OFFICE IN THE  STATE  SHALL
 ESTABLISH AND IMPLEMENT BASIC TRAINING AND PRE-EMPLOYMENT COURSE CURRIC-
 ULA FOR ALL MEMBERS OF SUCH OFFICE OR DEPARTMENT AND FOR ALL CURRENT AND
 NEW  OFFICER  EMPLOYEES  IN  ACCORDANCE  WITH THE DIVERSITY POLICIES AND
 PROCEDURES ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SECTION TWO HUNDRED FOURTEEN-G OF THE
 EXECUTIVE LAW.
   § 3. Section 204-d of the general municipal law, as amended by section
 44 of part B of chapter 56 of the laws of 2010, is amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   §  204-d.  Duties  of  the  fire  chief. 1. The fire chief of any fire
 department or company shall, in addition to any other duties assigned to
 him by law or contract, to the extent reasonably possible  determine  or
 cause  to  be  determined  the cause of each fire or explosion which the
 fire department or company has been called to suppress.  He  shall  file
 with  the office of fire prevention and control a report containing such
 determination and any additional information  required  by  such  office
 regarding  the fire or explosion. The report shall be in the form desig-
 nated by such office. He shall contact or  cause  to  be  contacted  the
 appropriate investigatory authority if he has reason to believe the fire
 or  explosion  is of incendiary or suspicious origin. For all fires that
 are suspected to have been ignited by a cigarette, within fourteen  days
 after  completing the investigation into such fire, the fire chief shall
 forward to the office of fire prevention and control information detail-
 ing, to the extent possible: (a) the specific brand  and  style  of  the
 cigarette  suspected  of having ignited such fire; (b) whether the ciga-
 rette package was marked as required by subdivision six of  section  one
 hundred  fifty-six-c  of  the  executive  law;  and (c) the location and
 manner in which such cigarette was purchased.
   2. THE FIRE CHIEF OF ANY FIRE DEPARTMENT OR COMPANY IN THE STATE SHALL
 ESTABLISH AND IMPLEMENT BASIC TRAINING AND PRE-EMPLOYMENT COURSE CURRIC-
 ULA FOR ALL MEMBERS OF SUCH FIRE  DEPARTMENT  OR  COMPANY  AND  FOR  ALL
 CURRENT  AND NEW EMPLOYEES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DIVERSITY POLICIES AND
 PROCEDURES ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SECTION TWO HUNDRED FOURTEEN-G OF THE
 EXECUTIVE LAW.
   § 4. The town law is amended by adding a new section 155-a to read  as
 follows:
   §  155-A. MANDATORY POLICE OFFICER DIVERSITY TRAINING. THE CHIEF OFFI-
 CER OF EVERY POLICE DEPARTMENT IN THE STATE SHALL ESTABLISH  AND  IMPLE-
 MENT  BASIC TRAINING AND PRE-EMPLOYMENT COURSE CURRICULA FOR ALL MEMBERS
 OF SUCH OFFICE AND FOR ALL CURRENT AND NEW OFFICER EMPLOYEES IN  ACCORD-
 ANCE  WITH THE DIVERSITY POLICIES AND PROCEDURES ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO
 SECTION TWO HUNDRED FOURTEEN-G OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW.
   § 5. The correction law is amended by adding a  new  section  22-b  to
 read as follows:
   §  22-B.  MANDATORY CORRECTION OFFICER DIVERSITY TRAINING. THE COMMIS-
 SIONER SHALL ESTABLISH AND IMPLEMENT BASIC TRAINING  AND  PRE-EMPLOYMENT

 S. 341                              3
 
 COURSE  CURRICULA  FOR ALL MEMBERS OF THE DEPARTMENT AND FOR ALL CURRENT
 AND NEW OFFICER EMPLOYEES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DIVERSITY POLICIES  AND
 PROCEDURES ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SECTION TWO HUNDRED FOURTEEN-G OF THE
 EXECUTIVE LAW.
   §  6. Section 3002 of the public health law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 2-c to read as follows:
   2-C. THE  COMMISSIONER,  IN  CONSULTATION  WITH  THE  STATE  EMERGENCY
 MEDICAL  SERVICES  COUNCIL, SHALL ESTABLISH AND IMPLEMENT BASIC TRAINING
 AND PRE-EMPLOYMENT COURSE CURRICULA FOR ALL  CURRENT  FIRST  RESPONDERS,
 EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS AND ADVANCED EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS
 AND  FOR  ALL  NEW  FIRST  RESPONDERS, EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS AND
 ADVANCED EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE  DIVERSITY
 POLICIES  AND  PROCEDURES  ESTABLISHED  PURSUANT  TO SECTION TWO HUNDRED
 FOURTEEN-G OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW.
   § 7. This act shall take effect immediately.

2021-S341A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A1184
Current Committee:: Senate Finance
Law Section:: Executive Law
Laws Affected:: Add §214-g, Exec L; add §208-i, amd §204-d, Gen Muni L; add §155-a, Town L; add §22-b, Cor L; amd §3002, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2019-2020: S8579, A10601
2023-2024: S1211, A7449

2021-S341A (ACTIVE) - Summary

2021-S341A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S341A

SPONSOR: PERSAUD
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the executive law, the general municipal law and the
town law, in relation to requiring the inclusion of diversity and inclu-
sion training in the basic training and pre-employment course curric-
ulums for state police officers and municipal police officers and sher-
iffs; to amend the general municipal law, in relation to requiring the
inclusion of diversity and inclusion training in the basic training and
pre-employment course curricula for members of fire departments and
companies; to amend the correction law, in relation to requiring the
inclusion of diversity and inclusion training in the basic training and
pre-employment course curricula for correction officers; and to amend
the public health law, in relation to requiring the inclusion of diver-
sity and inclusion training in the basic training and pre-employment
course curricula for career first responders, emergency medical techni-
cians and advanced emergency medical technicians

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

This legislation would mandate all first responder training courses
including those for municipal police officers, State Police, corrections
officers, firefighters, and EMS) to require that five percent of the
overall content and courses required for these professions consist of
diversity and inclusion training. These trainings should specifically
focus on biases related to race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation,
religion, age, and disability, special needs, among others.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Sections 1 adds a new section 214-g to the executive law requiring the
Superintendent of the State Police to establish policies and procedures
requiring training courses for the New York State Police to include
training in the areas of diversity and inclusion, including specific
training pertaining to sensitivity to issues of race, ethnicity, gender,
sexual orientation, religion, age, and disability, special needs, among
others. The section also sets forth that training curricula on this
matter will not comprise less than five percent of the course curric-
ulum.

Sections 2-6 adds a section to the general municipal law, the town law,
the correction law, and the public health law mandating municipal police
officers, firefighters, corrections officers, first responders, emergen-
cy medical technicians and advanced emergency medical technicians train-
ing courses implement the same training requirements as found in section
214-g of the executive law.

Section 7 sets forth the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Currently, the various state agencies that oversee training courses only
require minimal hours of diversity and inclusion training throughout the
entire course. This means that these individuals could spend as little
as 1 percent of their training focused on issues related to race,
ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, special needs and
disability. According to a 2016 U.S.  Department of Justice, Bureau of
Justice Statics bulletin: "State and Local Law Enforcement Training
Academies, 2013", police officers typically receive about 131 hours on
firearm skills and self-defense; 40 hours on community policing strate-
gies (up from 8 hours in 2006); but only 12 hours on cultural diversity
and human relations and 9 hours on mediation and conflict management.

Additional training will not only assist in handling racial biases, but
countless other situations that our first responders and corrections
officers find themselves in during their careers, including mental
health crises, interactions with the LGBTQ community, and domestic and
sexual abuse cases, as a few examples.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2020: S8579 Referred to Senate Rules Committee.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

To be determined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2021-S341A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  341--A
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. PERSAUD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to  the  Committee  on  Finance  --  committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee

 AN  ACT  to  amend  the executive law, the general municipal law and the
   town law, in relation to requiring  the  inclusion  of  diversity  and
   inclusion  training  in  the  basic training and pre-employment course
   curriculums for state police officers and  municipal  police  officers
   and  sheriffs;  to  amend  the  general  municipal law, in relation to
   requiring the inclusion of diversity and  inclusion  training  in  the
   basic training and pre-employment course curricula for members of fire
   departments and companies; to amend the correction law, in relation to
   requiring  the  inclusion  of  diversity and inclusion training in the
   basic training and  pre-employment  course  curricula  for  correction
   officers; and to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring
   the  inclusion of diversity and inclusion training in the basic train-
   ing and pre-employment course curricula for career  first  responders,
   emergency  medical  technicians and advanced emergency medical techni-
   cians
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 214-g
 to read as follows:
   § 214-G. TRAINING. 1. THE SUPERINTENDENT SHALL ESTABLISH POLICIES  AND
 PROCEDURES REQUIRING THAT STATE POLICE BASIC TRAINING AND PRE-EMPLOYMENT
 COURSE  CURRICULA  INCLUDE TRAINING IN THE AREAS OF DIVERSITY AND INCLU-
 SION, INCLUDING TRAINING PERTAINING TO APPROPRIATE SENSITIVITY TO ISSUES
 OF RACE, ETHNICITY, GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RELIGION, AGE AND  DISA-
 BILITIES. SUCH TRAINING SHALL COMPRISE NOT LESS THAN FIVE PERCENT OF THE
 BASIC  TRAINING  AND PRE-EMPLOYMENT COURSE TRAINING CURRICULA. DIVERSITY
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02221-03-1

 S. 341--A                           2
 
 TRAINING SHALL BE PROVIDED BY AN  ACCREDITED  EDUCATOR  AND/OR  ACCREDI-
 TATION BODY.
   2. THE ACCREDITATION BODY SHALL PROVIDE INFORMATION PERTAINING TO SUCH
 POLICIES  AND  PROCEDURES  TO  MUNICIPAL  LAW  ENFORCEMENT  AGENCIES AND
 DEPARTMENTS, FIRE DEPARTMENTS, THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND  COMMU-
 NITY SUPERVISION AND THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF SUCH
 CURRICULA BY SUCH AGENCIES AND DEPARTMENTS.
   3.  THE  SUPERINTENDENT OF THE STATE POLICE SHALL PROMULGATE RULES AND
 REGULATIONS NECESSARY TO EFFECTUATE THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION.
   § 2. The general municipal law is amended  by  adding  a  new  section
 208-i to read as follows:
   §  208-I. MANDATORY POLICE OFFICER DIVERSITY TRAINING. THE CHIEF OFFI-
 CER OF EVERY POLICE DEPARTMENT AND SHERIFF'S OFFICE IN THE  STATE  SHALL
 ESTABLISH AND IMPLEMENT BASIC TRAINING AND PRE-EMPLOYMENT COURSE CURRIC-
 ULA FOR ALL MEMBERS OF SUCH OFFICE OR DEPARTMENT AND FOR ALL CURRENT AND
 NEW  OFFICER  EMPLOYEES  IN  ACCORDANCE  WITH THE DIVERSITY POLICIES AND
 PROCEDURES ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SECTION TWO HUNDRED FOURTEEN-G OF THE
 EXECUTIVE LAW.
   § 3. Section 204-d of the general municipal law, as amended by section
 44 of part B of chapter 56 of the laws of 2010, is amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   §  204-d.  Duties  of  the  fire  chief. 1. The fire chief of any fire
 department or company shall, in addition to any other duties assigned to
 him by law or contract, to the extent reasonably possible  determine  or
 cause  to  be  determined  the cause of each fire or explosion which the
 fire department or company has been called to suppress.  He  shall  file
 with  the office of fire prevention and control a report containing such
 determination and any additional information  required  by  such  office
 regarding  the fire or explosion. The report shall be in the form desig-
 nated by such office. He shall contact or  cause  to  be  contacted  the
 appropriate investigatory authority if he has reason to believe the fire
 or  explosion  is of incendiary or suspicious origin. For all fires that
 are suspected to have been ignited by a cigarette, within fourteen  days
 after  completing the investigation into such fire, the fire chief shall
 forward to the office of fire prevention and control information detail-
 ing, to the extent possible: (a) the specific brand  and  style  of  the
 cigarette  suspected  of having ignited such fire; (b) whether the ciga-
 rette package was marked as required by subdivision six of  section  one
 hundred  fifty-six-c  of  the  executive  law;  and (c) the location and
 manner in which such cigarette was purchased.
   2. THE FIRE CHIEF OF ANY FIRE DEPARTMENT OR COMPANY IN THE STATE SHALL
 ESTABLISH AND IMPLEMENT BASIC TRAINING AND PRE-EMPLOYMENT COURSE CURRIC-
 ULA FOR ALL MEMBERS OF SUCH FIRE  DEPARTMENT  OR  COMPANY  AND  FOR  ALL
 CURRENT  AND NEW EMPLOYEES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DIVERSITY POLICIES AND
 PROCEDURES ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SECTION TWO HUNDRED FOURTEEN-G OF THE
 EXECUTIVE LAW.
   § 4. The town law is amended by adding a new section 155-a to read  as
 follows:
   §  155-A. MANDATORY POLICE OFFICER DIVERSITY TRAINING. THE CHIEF OFFI-
 CER OF EVERY POLICE DEPARTMENT IN THE STATE SHALL ESTABLISH  AND  IMPLE-
 MENT  BASIC TRAINING AND PRE-EMPLOYMENT COURSE CURRICULA FOR ALL MEMBERS
 OF SUCH OFFICE AND FOR ALL CURRENT AND NEW OFFICER EMPLOYEES IN  ACCORD-
 ANCE  WITH THE DIVERSITY POLICIES AND PROCEDURES ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO
 SECTION TWO HUNDRED FOURTEEN-G OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW.
   § 5. The correction law is amended by adding a  new  section  22-b  to
 read as follows:

 S. 341--A                           3
 
   §  22-B.  MANDATORY CORRECTION OFFICER DIVERSITY TRAINING. THE COMMIS-
 SIONER SHALL ESTABLISH AND IMPLEMENT BASIC TRAINING  AND  PRE-EMPLOYMENT
 COURSE  CURRICULA  FOR ALL MEMBERS OF THE DEPARTMENT AND FOR ALL CURRENT
 AND NEW OFFICER EMPLOYEES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DIVERSITY POLICIES  AND
 PROCEDURES ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SECTION TWO HUNDRED FOURTEEN-G OF THE
 EXECUTIVE LAW.
   §  6. Section 3002 of the public health law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 2-c to read as follows:
   2-C. THE  COMMISSIONER,  IN  CONSULTATION  WITH  THE  STATE  EMERGENCY
 MEDICAL  SERVICES  COUNCIL, SHALL ESTABLISH AND IMPLEMENT BASIC TRAINING
 AND PRE-EMPLOYMENT COURSE CURRICULA FOR ALL CURRENT CAREER FIRST RESPON-
 DERS, EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS AND ADVANCED EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECH-
 NICIANS AND FOR ALL NEW FIRST RESPONDERS, EMERGENCY MEDICAL  TECHNICIANS
 AND ADVANCED EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DIVER-
 SITY POLICIES AND PROCEDURES ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SECTION TWO HUNDRED
 FOURTEEN-G OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW.
   § 7. This act shall take effect immediately.

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