Bill Text: NY S06853 | 2011-2012 | 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 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-29 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S06853 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S06853-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6853
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    March 29, 2012
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
       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    S 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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