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Assembly Bill A8623

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires police officer training programs on interacting with individuals with a disability

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2023-A8623 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3336
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §840, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S8125
2025-2026: A4157, S1830

2023-A8623 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires police officer training programs on interacting with individuals with a disability with special emphasis on the techniques needed to improve interactions with individuals that are blind or deaf or hard of hearing; provides such training shall be created in consultation with the justice center for the protection of people with special needs.

2023-A8623 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8623
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 12, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring police offi-
   cer training programs on interacting with individuals with a disabili-
   ty
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of  section  840  of  the  executive  law  is
 amended by adding a new paragraph (n) to read as follows:
   (N)  ESTABLISHMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION ON AN ONGOING BASIS, OF A TRAIN-
 ING PROGRAM FOR ALL CURRENT AND NEW POLICE OFFICERS AND  PEACE  OFFICERS
 REGARDING  HOW TO INTERACT WITH INDIVIDUALS WITH A DISABILITY AS DEFINED
 IN SUBDIVISION TWENTY-ONE OF SECTION  TWO  HUNDRED  NINETY-TWO  OF  THIS
 CHAPTER,  WITH  SPECIAL  EMPHASIS  ON  THE  TECHNIQUES NEEDED TO IMPROVE
 INTERACTIONS WITH INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE BLIND OR DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING.
 THE CONTENT OF SUCH TRAINING PROGRAM SHALL BE  CREATED  IN  CONSULTATION
 WITH  THE JUSTICE CENTER FOR THE PROTECTION OF PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS
 AS ESTABLISHED UNDER ARTICLE TWENTY OF THIS CHAPTER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next  succeeding
 the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
 addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal  of  any  rule or regulation by the
 municipal police training council necessary for  the  implementation  of
 this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
 on or before such effective date.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06986-01-3

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