Bill Text: NY A11262 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Expands cardiopulmonary resuscitation training and retraining for police departments to all cities, towns, and villages.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-07-25 - referred to local governments [A11262 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A11262-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          11262
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      July 25, 2018
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES  --  (at request of M. of A. Blake,
          Santabarbara) -- read once and referred  to  the  Committee  on  Local
          Governments
        AN  ACT  to amend the general municipal law, in relation to cardiopulmo-
          nary resuscitation training and retraining for police  departments  in
          cities, counties, towns and villages
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 208-h of the general municipal  law,  as  added  by
     2  chapter 271 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
     3    §  208-h.  Cardiopulmonary  resuscitation  training and retraining for
     4  police departments in cities [having a  population  of  one  million  or
     5  more],  counties,  towns  and  villages.  1.  For  the  purposes of this
     6  section, "cardiopulmonary resuscitation" shall have the same meaning  as
     7  provided  in  subdivision  six  of section six hundred twenty-one of the
     8  general business law.
     9    2. Every police department in a  city  [having  a  population  of  one
    10  million  or  more],  county, town or village shall provide all uniformed
    11  personnel of such department training in  cardiopulmonary  resuscitation
    12  and  direct  that such training be completed at least every two years to
    13  the extent practicable, but no later than every four years.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    15  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16202-02-8