Assembly Bill A1840

                             
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                                   1840
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 14, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. ANGELINO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Codes
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the criminal procedure law and the education law, in
   relation to expanding the geographical area of employment of universi-
   ty police officers; and to repeal paragraph (d) of subdivision 34-a of
   section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law relating thereto
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  (a) of subdivision 34-a of section 1.20 of the
 criminal procedure law, as amended by chapter 428 of the laws  of  1999,
 is amended to read as follows:
   (a)  [Except  as  provided  in paragraph (d) of this subdivision,] New
 York state constitutes the "geographical  area  of  employment"  of  any
 police  officer  employed  as  such  by  an agency of the state or by an
 authority which functions throughout the  state,  or  a  police  officer
 designated by the superintendent of state police pursuant to section two
 hundred twenty-three of the executive law;
   § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 34-a of section 1.20 of the criminal
 procedure law, as amended by chapter 424 of the laws of 1998, is amended
 to read as follows:
   (a)  [Except as provided in paragraph (d),] New York state constitutes
 the "geographical area of employment" of any police officer employed  as
 such  by  an  agency  of  the  state  or by an authority which functions
 throughout the state;
   § 3. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 34-a of section 1.20 of the criminal
 procedure law is REPEALED.
   § 4. Paragraph l of subdivision 2 of section 355 of the education law,
 as amended by chapter 424 of the laws of 1998, is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   l.  To appoint university police officers who shall have the powers of
 police  officers  and  to  remove  such  police  officers  at  pleasure;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 provided,  however, that any person appointed a police officer must have
 satisfactorily completed or complete within one  year  of  the  date  of
 [his]  appointment  a course of law enforcement training approved by the
 municipal  police  training council in consultation with the university.
 [It shall be the duty of such police officers to preserve law and  order
 on  the  campuses  and  other  property of the university, including any
 portion of a public highway which crosses or abuts such property.]
   Subject to the approval of  the  chancellor,  the  president  of  each
 state-operated  campus  of the state university [shall] MAY enter into a
 written agreement with adjoining law enforcement  agencies  establishing
 protocols  for the exercise of authority by such university police offi-
 cer off-campus, including mutual aid and assistance. Such written proto-
 cols shall not be deemed to supersede  the  authority  of  other  police
 officers.    The  provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to any of
 the state institutions and property referred to in section five thousand
 seven hundred nine of this chapter.
   § 5. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
 the  amendments  to paragraph (a) of subdivision 34-a of section 1.20 of
 the criminal procedure law made by section one  of  this  act  shall  be
 subject  to  the  expiration and reversion of such paragraph pursuant to
 section 3 of chapter 428 of the laws of 1999, as amended, when upon such
 date the provisions of section two of this act shall take effect.