Bill Text: NY A00221 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the training requirements for peace officers; creates a waiver of these requirements for federal law enforcement officers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to economic development [A00221 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00221-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           221
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BRAUNSTEIN  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Economic Development
        AN ACT to amend the  general  business  law,  in  relation  to  training
          requirements
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraphs f and g of subdivision 4 of section 89-n of  the
     2  general business law, paragraph f as amended and paragraph g as added by
     3  chapter  221  of  the laws of 2003, are amended and a new paragraph h is
     4  added to read as follows:
     5    f. a police officer as defined in paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d),  (e),
     6  (f),  (j),  (k),  (l), (o) and (p) of subdivision thirty-four of section
     7  1.20 of the criminal procedure  law  who  has  been  retired  from  such
     8  employment for a period not to exceed ten years, provided, however, that
     9  a retired police officer who has been retired from such employment for a
    10  period  in excess of ten years shall be required to provide proof to his
    11  or her security guard employer of his or her satisfactory completion  of
    12  an  eight hour annual in-service training course approved by the commis-
    13  sioner, and provided further, however, that a retired police officer who
    14  will be required by his or  her  security  guard  employer  to  carry  a
    15  firearm  or will be authorized to have access to a firearm shall provide
    16  to such employer proof of  his  or  her  satisfactory  completion  of  a
    17  forty-seven  hour  firearms training course approved by the commissioner
    18  and, if such firearms training course has not been completed within  one
    19  year  prior to such employment, satisfactory completion of an additional
    20  eight hour annual firearms in-service training course  approved  by  the
    21  commissioner,  such  training  course to be completed at least annually;
    22  [or]
    23    g. a peace officer as defined in subdivisions two, twenty and  twenty-
    24  five and paragraphs a and b of subdivision twenty-one of section 2.10 of
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02661-01-9
        A. 221                              2
     1  the criminal procedure law who has been retired from such employment for
     2  a  period  not  to  exceed  ten years, provided, however, that a retired
     3  peace officer who has been retired from such employment for a period  in
     4  excess  of  ten  years  shall be required to provide proof to his or her
     5  security guard employer of his or  her  satisfactory  completion  of  an
     6  eight  hour  annual in-service training course approved by the municipal
     7  police training council, and provided further, however, that  a  retired
     8  peace officer who will be required by his or her security guard employer
     9  to  carry  a  firearm  or will be authorized to have access to a firearm
    10  shall provide  to  such  employer  proof  of  his  or  her  satisfactory
    11  completion  of  a  forty-seven hour firearms training course approved by
    12  the municipal police training council and,  if  such  firearms  training
    13  course  has  not  been  completed  within  one year prior to employment,
    14  satisfactory completion of an  additional  eight  hour  annual  firearms
    15  in-service  training  course  approved  by the municipal police training
    16  council, such training course to be completed at least annually[.]; or
    17    h. a federal law enforcement officer having  the  powers  of  a  peace
    18  officer  pursuant  to article two of the criminal procedure law; who has
    19  been retired from such employment for a period not to exceed ten  years,
    20  provided,  however,  that  a retired federal law enforcement officer who
    21  has been retired from such employment for a  period  in  excess  of  ten
    22  years  shall  be  required to provide proof to his or her security guard
    23  employer of his or her satisfactory completion of an eight  hour  annual
    24  in-service  training  course  approved by the commissioner, and provided
    25  further, however, that a retired federal  law  enforcement  officer  who
    26  will  be  required  by  his  or  her  security guard employer to carry a
    27  firearm or will be authorized to have access to a firearm shall  provide
    28  to  such  employer  proof  of  his  or  her satisfactory completion of a
    29  forty-seven hour firearms training course approved by  the  commissioner
    30  and,  if such firearms training course has not been completed within one
    31  year prior to such employment, satisfactory completion of an  additional
    32  eight  hour  annual  firearms in-service training course approved by the
    33  commissioner, such training course to be completed at least annually.
    34    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.