Bill Text: NY A10780 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires police officers to maintain liability insurance; and excludes police officers from provisions requiring defense and indemnification of state officers and employees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-10 - referred to local governments [A10780 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10780-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10780

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 10, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Hyndman) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments

        AN ACT to amend the general municipal  law,  in  relation  to  requiring
          police  officers  to  maintain  liability  insurance; and to amend the
          public officers law, in relation to  excluding  police  officers  from
          provisions requiring defense and indemnification of state officers and
          employees

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

     1    Section 1. The general municipal  law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  section 52-a to read as follows:
     3    §  52-a.  Liability insurance for police officers. Each police officer
     4  employed by a city, county, town, village,  authority  or  agency  shall
     5  obtain  a  policy  of liability insurance. Each appointed police officer
     6  must provide proof of liability  insurance  coverage  required  by  this
     7  section  and  must maintain continuous coverage throughout the course of
     8  employment as a  police  officer.  Such  insurance  shall  cover  claims
     9  against  such  officer  for  acts or omissions during any period of time
    10  that such officer is performing duties within the scope of employment of
    11  such city, county, town, village, authority or agency. The city, county,
    12  town, village, authority or agency shall cover  the  base  rate  of  the
    13  policy required by this section.
    14    § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 17 of the public officers law is amended
    15  by adding a new paragraph (a-1) to read as follows:
    16    (a-1)  For the purposes of this section, the term "employee" shall not
    17  include any police officer or peace officer as such terms are defined in
    18  sections 1.20 and 2.10 of the criminal procedure law and section  14-102
    19  of the administrative code of the city of New York.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16802-05-0
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