Bill Text: NY A03538 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Directs the attorney general to review incidents where a civilian is killed by a police officer.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to codes [A03538 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A03538-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3538 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 27, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the authority of the attorney general to review incidents where a civilian is killed by a police officer The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 63 of the executive law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 17 to read as follows: 3 17. Review any incident involving the conduct of a police officer in 4 connection with the performance of his or her official duties, wherein 5 such conduct is alleged to have caused the serious injury or death of a 6 civilian, within sixty days of the incident. Upon such review, the 7 attorney general shall determine whether the incident being brought 8 forth will remain within the jurisdiction of the local district attor- 9 ney's office or be prosecuted under the jurisdiction of a special prose- 10 cutor appointed by the governor. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 12 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06331-02-7