Senate Bill S2806

2023-2024 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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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Consumer Protection Committee


  • 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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2023-S2806 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Consumer Protection
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
2013-2014: S3606
2015-2016: S2821
2017-2018: S5282
2019-2020: S422
2021-2022: S4499

2023-S2806 (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.

2023-S2806 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S2806 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2806
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 24, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- 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.
                                                            LBD03813-01-3
              

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