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2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 30, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. JONES -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Local Governments -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law and the executive law, in
relation to the completion of training requirements for sheriffs and
undersheriffs
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 209-q of the
general municipal law, as amended by chapter 735 of the laws of 1988, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local
law or charter to the contrary, no person shall, after July first, nine-
teen hundred sixty, receive an original appointment on a permanent basis
as a police officer of any county, city, town, village or police
district unless such person has previously been awarded a certificate by
the executive director of the municipal police training council created
under article thirty-five of the executive law, attesting to [his] SUCH
PERSON'S satisfactory completion of an approved municipal police basic
training program OR A CERTIFICATE PROVIDED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION
THREE-B OF SECTION EIGHT HUNDRED FORTY-ONE OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW; and
every person who is appointed on a temporary basis or for a probationary
term or on other than a permanent basis as a police officer of any coun-
ty, city, town, village or police district shall forfeit [his] THEIR
position as such unless [he] SUCH PERSON previously has satisfactorily
completed, or within the time prescribed by regulations promulgated by
the governor pursuant to section eight hundred forty-two of the execu-
tive law, satisfactorily completes, a municipal police basic training
program for temporary or probationary police officers and is awarded a
certificate by such director attesting thereto OR A CERTIFICATE PROVIDED
PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION THREE-B OF SECTION EIGHT HUNDRED FORTY-ONE OF
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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THE EXECUTIVE LAW. AN ELECTED OR APPOINTED SHERIFF MAY APPLY FOR A
CERTIFICATE PROVIDED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION THREE-B OF SECTION EIGHT
HUNDRED FORTY-ONE OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW.
§ 2. Section 840 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 9 to read as follows:
9. THE COUNCIL, IN CONSULTATION WITH THE SUPERINTENDENT OF STATE
POLICE, SHALL PROMULGATE RULES AND REGULATIONS WITH RESPECT TO:
(A) DETERMINING QUALIFICATIONS AND CREDENTIALS OF PERSONS PREVIOUSLY
APPOINTED TO THE NEW YORK STATE POLICE FORCE AS A SWORN MEMBER, WHICH
MAY INCLUDE SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF A BASIC TRAINING PROGRAM AT THE
STATE POLICE ACADEMY, THAT ARE SUBSTANTIALLY EQUIVALENT TO AN APPROVED
MUNICIPAL POLICE BASIC TRAINING PROGRAM UNDER THIS ARTICLE AND WHICH
SHALL SATISFY THE REQUIREMENTS OF SECTION TWO HUNDRED NINE-Q OF THE
GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW, IN LIEU OF THE CERTIFICATE AWARDED BY THE EXECU-
TIVE DIRECTOR OF THE MUNICIPAL POLICE TRAINING COUNCIL ATTESTING TO
SATISFACTORY COMPLETION OF AN APPROVED MUNICIPAL POLICE BASIC TRAINING
PROGRAM; AND
(B) THE FORM AND MANNER IN WHICH A PERSON MAY APPLY TO RECEIVE A
CERTIFICATE ATTESTING THAT SUCH PERSON'S QUALIFICATIONS AND CREDENTIALS
AS A PERSON PREVIOUSLY APPOINTED TO THE NEW YORK STATE POLICE FORCE AS A
SWORN MEMBER ARE SUBSTANTIALLY EQUIVALENT TO SATISFACTORY COMPLETION OF
AN APPROVED MUNICIPAL POLICE BASIC TRAINING PROGRAM.
§ 3. Section 841 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 3-b to read as follows:
3-B. CERTIFY POLICE OFFICERS WHO HAVE QUALIFICATIONS AND CREDENTIALS
THAT THE COUNCIL HAS DETERMINED TO BE SUBSTANTIALLY EQUIVALENT TO AN
APPROVED MUNICIPAL POLICE BASIC TRAINING PROGRAM AND ISSUE CERTIFICATES
TO SUCH POLICE OFFICERS;
§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately.