Bill Text: NY A01764 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 1764

Bill Title: Establishes the police canine vest fund to be used for the purpose of purchasing, maintaining, repairing and replacing soft body ballistic armor vests and other protective equipment for state police and municipal department police canines utilized in the performance of police duties, as well as the purchasing and training of such police canines.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-27 - print number 1764a [A01764 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01764-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1764--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 20, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  COLTON, CRUZ, BUTTENSCHON, SEAWRIGHT, GLICK,
          MORINELLO, NORRIS, J. M. GIGLIO, McDONOUGH,  DeSTEFANO,  RA,  MIKULIN,
          COOK, SIMON, MILLER, TAGUE, PALMESANO, LAVINE -- Multi-Sponsored by --
          M.  of  A.  RAMOS, WALSH -- read once and referred to the Committee on
          Ways and Means -- recommitted to the Committee on Ways  and  Means  in
          accordance  with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee

        AN  ACT  to amend the state finance law, in relation to establishing the
          police canine vest fund

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  The  state finance law is amended by adding a new section
     2  97-bbbbb to read as follows:
     3    § 97-bbbbb. Police canine vest fund. 1. There is hereby established in
     4  the joint custody of the state comptroller and the commissioner of taxa-
     5  tion and finance a fund to be known as the "police canine vest fund".
     6    2. The fund shall consist of  all  moneys  credited,  appropriated  or
     7  transferred  thereto from any other fund or source. Nothing contained in
     8  this section shall prevent the state from  receiving  grants,  gifts  or
     9  bequests  for  the  purposes  of the fund as defined in this section and
    10  depositing them into the fund according to law.
    11    3. Moneys from the fund shall be used for the purpose  of  purchasing,
    12  maintaining, repairing and replacing soft body ballistic armor vests and
    13  other  protective  equipment  for  state police and municipal department
    14  police canines utilized in the performance of police duties, as well  as
    15  the purchasing and training of such police canines.
    16    4.  Nothing  contained  in this section shall be construed to prohibit
    17  the division of state police or any  municipal  police  department  from
    18  expending  its  own  funds for ballistic armor vests or other protective
    19  equipment for police canines.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05189-02-4

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     1    5. A municipal police department utilizing one or more police  canines
     2  may  apply  to  the superintendent of the state police for the purchase,
     3  maintenance, repair or replacement of  police  canine  vests  and  other
     4  protective  equipment  as provided in subdivision three of this section.
     5  The  superintendent  of  the  state police shall establish a process for
     6  application by such police departments and for selection of  departments
     7  to receive police canine vests or other protective equipment.
     8    6.  Moneys  shall  be paid out of the fund on the audit and warrant of
     9  the state comptroller on vouchers  approved  by  the  superintendent  of
    10  state  police.  Any  interest  received  by the comptroller on moneys on
    11  deposits in the fund shall be retained in and become part of such  fund.
    12  No  money  from  such fund may be withdrawn, transferred, or used by any
    13  person for any purpose other than as permitted by this section.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    15  have  become a law and shall apply to all claims filed on and after such
    16  effective date. Effective immediately  the  addition,  amendment  and/or
    17  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    18  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
    19  on or before such date.