Bill Text: NY A03518 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the municipal police training council to ensure that issues related to motorcycle profiling are addressed in basic law enforcement training.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to governmental operations [A03518 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03518-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3518
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 29, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. LUPARDO, WEPRIN, MOSLEY, STIRPE, ORTIZ, BENEDET-
          TO, L. ROSENTHAL, BLAKE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of  A.  CROUCH  --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to motorcycle profiling
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section  839-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  839-a. Motorcycle profiling. 1. The municipal police training coun-
     4  cil shall  ensure  that  issues  related  to  motorcycle  profiling  are
     5  addressed  in  basic  law enforcement training and offered to in-service
     6  law enforcement officers in conjunction with existing training regarding
     7  profiling.
     8    2. Local law enforcement agencies shall  add  a  statement  condemning
     9  motorcycle profiling to existing policies regarding profiling.
    10    3.  For the purposes of this section, "motorcycle profiling" means the
    11  illegal use of the fact that a person rides a motorcycle or wears motor-
    12  cycle-related paraphernalia as a factor in deciding to  stop  and  ques-
    13  tion,  take  enforcement  action,  arrest, or search a person or vehicle
    14  with or without a legal basis under the United  States  constitution  or
    15  New York state constitution.
    16    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    17  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    18  repeal of any rules or regulations necessary for the  implementation  of
    19  the  foregoing  provisions of this act on its effective date are author-
    20  ized and directed to be made and completed on or before  such  effective
    21  date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03291-01-9