Senate Bill S1982A

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  1982--A
     Cal. No. 1607
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 14, 2025
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 Introduced  by  Sens.  HARCKHAM,  ASHBY, JACKSON, O'MARA, ROLISON, STEC,
   WEBB -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be commit-
   ted to the Committee on Local Government -- committee  discharged  and
   said  bill  committed  to the Committee on Rules -- reported favorably
   from said committee, ordered to a third reading, passed by Senate  and
   delivered  to  the  Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to
   third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its  place  in
   the order of third reading
 
 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 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
 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.