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Assembly Bill A8054

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires police officer training programs on interacting with individuals who are a part of a sexual orientation and/or gender minority

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2025-A8054 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §840, Exec L

2025-A8054 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires police officer training programs on interacting with individuals who are a part of a sexual orientation and/or gender minority.

2025-A8054 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8054
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 22, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. RAGA -- 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 who are  a  part
   of a sexual orientation and/or gender minority

   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 WHO ARE A PART OF A SEXUAL
 ORIENTATION AND/OR GENDER MINORITY. THE CONTENT OF SUCH TRAINING PROGRAM
 SHALL BE CREATED IN CONSULTATION WITH POLICE OFFICERS AND PEACE OFFICERS
 WHO ARE A PART OF  A  SEXUAL  ORIENTATION  AND/OR  GENDER  MINORITY  AND
 MEMBERS  OF THE COMMUNITY WHO ARE INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE A PART OF A SEXUAL
 ORIENTATION AND/OR GENDER MINORITY, INCLUDING AT  LEAST  ONE  MALE,  ONE
 FEMALE, AND ONE TRANSGENDER PERSON. SUCH TRAINING PROGRAM SHALL INCLUDE,
 BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:
   (1)  THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND GENDER IDENTITY AND
 HOW THESE TWO ASPECTS OF IDENTITY RELATE TO  EACH  OTHER  AND  TO  RACE,
 CULTURE, AND RELIGION.
   (2)  THE  TERMINOLOGY USED TO IDENTIFY AND DESCRIBE SEXUAL ORIENTATION
 AND GENDER IDENTITY.
   (3) HOW TO CREATE AN INCLUSIVE WORKPLACE WITHIN  LAW  ENFORCEMENT  FOR
 SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND GENDER IDENTITY MINORITIES.
   (4)  IMPORTANT  MOMENTS  IN  HISTORY RELATED TO SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND
 GENDER IDENTITY MINORITIES AND LAW ENFORCEMENT.
   (5) HOW LAW ENFORCEMENT CAN RESPOND EFFECTIVELY TO  DOMESTIC  VIOLENCE
 AND HATE CRIMES INVOLVING SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND GENDER IDENTITY MINORI-
 TIES.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05983-01-5

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