Bill Text: NY A06803 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the municipal police training council to promulgate rules and regulations regarding psychological evaluations for certain members of the police force of a city with a population of one million or more.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-09-15 - enacting clause stricken [A06803 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A06803-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6803

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 8, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. PICHARDO, TAYLOR -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
          A. SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the Committee  on  Governmental
          Operations

        AN  ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring the munici-
          pal  police  training  council  to  promulgate  regulations  regarding
          psychological evaluations

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section  840  of  the  executive  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter 66 and such section as renumbered by chapter 603 of
     3  the laws of 1973, is amended to read as follows:
     4    2. a. The council shall promulgate, and may from time to  time  amend,
     5  such  rules  and  regulations  prescribing  height,  weight and physical
     6  fitness requirements for  eligibility  of  persons  for  provisional  or
     7  permanent  appointment  in the competitive class of the civil service as
     8  police officers of any county, city, town, village or police district as
     9  it deems necessary and proper for the efficient  performance  of  police
    10  duties.
    11    b.  The council, in addition to the rules and regulations set forth in
    12  paragraph a of this subdivision, shall promulgate, and may from time  to
    13  time  amend, such rules and regulations, requiring every police officer,
    14  appointed in the competitive class of the service, for any city  with  a
    15  population of one million or more, to undergo a psychological evaluation
    16  upon  entry  into such service, and upon every third year thereafter, to
    17  determine whether such officer has  post-traumatic  stress  disorder  or
    18  anger management issues, which may affect his or her ability to serve as
    19  a  police officer, provided, however, the provisions of this subdivision
    20  shall not apply to police officers who are not  assigned  to  precincts,
    21  who  are  not  assigned to active duty on patrol or who supervise police
    22  personnel who are assigned to active duty on patrol.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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