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Senate Bill S4610

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to training requirements for certain peace officers

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2025-S4610 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2.30, CP L

2025-S4610 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that correction officers designated as peace officers employed as peace officers by another state or local agency shall not be required to complete duplicate training or instruction.

2025-S4610 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S4610 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4610
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 10, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. PALUMBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure  law,  in  relation  to  training
   requirements for certain peace officers
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 2.30  of  the  criminal  procedure
 law,  as  amended by chapter 491 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read
 as follows:
   1. Every peace officer in the state  of  New  York  must  successfully
 complete  a  training program, a portion of which shall be prescribed by
 the municipal police training council and a portion of  which  shall  be
 prescribed  by  [his  or  her]  SUCH  OFFICER'S  employer.  The  portion
 prescribed by the municipal police training council shall  be  comprised
 of  subjects, and the hours each is to be taught, that shall be required
 of all types or classes of peace  officers.  The  hours  of  instruction
 required  by  the municipal police training council shall not exceed one
 hundred eighty, unless a greater amount is either  required  by  law  or
 regulation,  or  is  requested  by the employer. PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT
 CORRECTION OFFICERS DESIGNATED AS PEACE OFFICERS UNDER SUBDIVISION TWEN-
 TY-FIVE OF SECTION 2.10 OF THIS ARTICLE WHO ARE EMPLOYED AS PEACE  OFFI-
 CERS  BY ANOTHER STATE OR LOCAL AGENCY SHALL NOT BE REQUIRED TO COMPLETE
 DUPLICATE TRAINING OR INSTRUCTION IN SUBJECTS WHICH THEY  HAVE  SUCCESS-
 FULLY COMPLETED FOR EMPLOYMENT AS A CORRECTION OFFICER.
   The  segment  prescribed  by  the  employer for its employees shall be
 comprised of subjects, and the hours each is to be taught,  relating  to
 the  special  nature  of the duties of the peace officers employed by it
 provided, however, that when the subjects prescribed by the employer are
 identical to the subjects in the training program required by the munic-
 ipal police training council, the employer  shall  not  be  required  to
 provide duplicate training for those subjects.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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