Bill Text: NY S04378 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes Briana's law requiring biennial CPR training for police officers.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S04378 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S04378-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4378
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    March 17, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  MONTGOMERY  -- read twice and ordered printed, and
         when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
       AN ACT to amend the general municipal law  and  the  executive  law,  in
         relation  to requiring police officers to be retrained in cardiopulmo-
         nary resuscitation every two years
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
    2  "Briana's Law".
    3    S 2. The general municipal law is amended  by  adding  a  new  section
    4  208-h to read as follows:
    5    S   208-H.   BIENNIAL  POLICE  OFFICER  CARDIOPULMONARY  RESUSCITATION
    6  RETRAINING. EVERY POLICE OFFICER IN A  CITY,  COUNTY,  TOWN  OR  VILLAGE
    7  SHALL, EVERY TWO YEARS BE:
    8    1.  RETRAINED  IN CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION AS DEFINED BY SUBDIVI-
    9  SION SIX OF SECTION SIX HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE OF THE GENERAL BUSINESS  LAW;
   10  AND
   11    2.  REQUIRED TO DEMONSTRATE THE SATISFACTORY COMPLETION OF TRAINING IN
   12  CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION.
   13    S 3. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 232 to  read
   14  as follows:
   15    S  232.  BIENNIAL  STATE  POLICE OFFICER CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION
   16  RETRAINING. EVERY STATE POLICE OFFICER SHALL, EVERY TWO YEARS BE:
   17    1. RETRAINED IN CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION AS DEFINED  BY  SUBDIVI-
   18  SION  SIX OF SECTION SIX HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE OF THE GENERAL BUSINESS LAW;
   19  AND
   20    2. REQUIRED TO DEMONSTRATE THE SATISFACTORY COMPLETION OF TRAINING  IN
   21  CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION.
   22    S  4.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
   23  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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