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Senate Bill S62

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to police staffing at certain parks

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Cultural Affairs, Tourism, Parks And Recreation Committee

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2025-S62 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4528
Current Committee:
Senate Cultural Affairs, Tourism, Parks And Recreation
Law Section:
Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3.07, Pks & Rec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S5882
2017-2018: S1383
2019-2020: S534
2021-2022: S1642
2023-2024: S39, A7336

2025-S62 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the commissioner of parks, recreation and historic preservation to provide for the health, safety and welfare of the public using facilities under its jurisdiction, which shall include ensuring a minimum staff of three hundred eighty-five permanently appointed, full time regional state park police officers at state parks, beaches, campgrounds, historic sites and concert venues; makes related provisions.

2025-S62 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S62 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    62
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  GALLIVAN, BORRELLO, HELMING, OBERACKER, RHOADS --
   read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to
   the Committee on Cultural Affairs, Tourism, Parks and Recreation
 
 AN  ACT to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law, in
   relation to police staffing at certain parks
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Section 3.07 of the parks, recreation and historic preser-
 vation law is amended by adding three new subdivisions 3,  4  and  5  to
 read as follows:
   3.  THE  COMMISSIONER SHALL PROVIDE FOR THE HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELFARE
 OF THE PUBLIC USING  FACILITIES  UNDER  ITS  JURISDICTION,  WHICH  SHALL
 INCLUDE ENSURING A MINIMUM STAFF OF THREE HUNDRED EIGHTY-FIVE PERMANENT-
 LY  APPOINTED,  FULL  TIME  REGIONAL STATE PARK POLICE OFFICERS AT STATE
 PARKS, BEACHES, CAMPGROUNDS, HISTORIC SITES AND  CONCERT  VENUES.    THE
 NUMBER  OF  REGIONAL  STATE PARK POLICE OFFICERS DEPLOYED TO EACH REGION
 SHALL BE EQUIVALENT TO THE PERCENTAGE OF EACH REGION'S FIVE YEAR ATTEND-
 ANCE AVERAGE.
   4. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL NOT OPEN A  NEW  STATE  PARK,  BEACH,  CAMP-
 GROUND,  HISTORIC SITE OR CONCERT VENUE UNLESS SUCH COMMISSIONER SUBMITS
 A STAFFING PLAN TO THE LEGISLATURE THAT DEMONSTRATES THERE IS  A  SUFFI-
 CIENT  NUMBER  OF  REGIONAL  STATE  PARK  POLICE TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE AND
 APPROPRIATE DELIVERY OF POLICE SERVICES  TO  PATRONS  VISITING  THE  NEW
 SITE.
   5.  THE  COMMISSIONER MAY REDEPLOY REGIONAL STATE PARK POLICE OFFICERS
 OUTSIDE OF THEIR ASSIGNED REGION IN THE CASE OF AN EMERGENCY.   EMERGEN-
 CIES  ARE  DEFINED  AS  NATURAL DISASTERS, DECLARED EMERGENCIES AND MASS
 CASUALTY INCIDENTS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
 law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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