Bill Text: NY A07310 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Exempts the sanitation police of the department of sanitation of the city of New York from training requirements for security guards.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental employees [A07310 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07310-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7310

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 17, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Employees

        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to  exempting  the
          sanitation  police  of the department of sanitation of the city of New
          York from training requirements for security guards

          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
     3  by 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.
                                                                   LBD11394-01-3
        A. 7310                             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. an officer or member of the sanitation police of the department  of
    18  sanitation  of the city of New York having the powers of a peace officer
    19  pursuant to subdivision fifty-nine  of  section  2.10  of  the  criminal
    20  procedure law.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.