Bill Text: NY A02115 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Enacts "Briana's law" to require that members of the division of state police and of the police department of the city of New York complete training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation during the police academy and every 2 years thereafter.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-08-27 - approval memo.3 [A02115 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A02115-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2115--B
                                                                Cal. No. 270
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 17, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. ORTIZ, HARRIS, MOYA -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Local Governments -- reported  and  referred  to  the
          Committee  on  Ways  and  Means -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and  recommitted  to  said  committee  --
          advanced  to  a third reading, passed by Assembly and delivered to the
          Senate, recalled from the Senate,  vote  reconsidered,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  executive law and the general municipal law, in
          relation to requiring certain police  officers  to  be  re-trained  in
          cardiopulmonary 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    §  2.  The  executive  law is amended by adding a new section 214-e to
     4  read as follows:
     5    § 214-e. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation training and  retraining.    1.
     6  For  the purposes of this section, "cardiopulmonary resuscitation" shall
     7  have the same meaning as provided in  subdivision  six  of  section  six
     8  hundred twenty-one of the general business law.
     9    2. Each member of the division of state police shall be:
    10    (a) trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation during the training proc-
    11  ess to become a trooper;
    12    (b) retrained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation every two years; and
    13    (c) required to demonstrate the satisfactory completion of training in
    14  cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
    15    §  3.  The  general  municipal  law is amended by adding a new section
    16  208-h to read as follows:
    17    § 208-h. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation  training  and  retraining  for
    18  police  departments in cities having a population of one million or more
    19  1. For the purposes of  this  section,  "cardiopulmonary  resuscitation"
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  shall  have  the  same meaning as provided in subdivision six of section
     2  six hundred twenty-one of the general business law.
     3    2.  Every  police  department  in  a  city  having a population of one
     4  million or more shall provide all uniformed personnel of such department
     5  training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and direct that such  training
     6  be  completed at least every two years to the extent practicable, but no
     7  later than every four years.
     8    § 4. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation report. No later than May  1,  2018
     9  and every May first thereafter, the police department of the city of New
    10  York and the division of state police shall provide to the legislature a
    11  report  which  shall  include  the  total  number  of uniformed officers
    12  assigned to a patrol precinct, transit district, or police service  area
    13  in  the  past  calendar  year,  disaggregated  by:  (a) the total number
    14  trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation; (b) the total number of  offi-
    15  cers newly trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the past calendar
    16  year;  (c)  the  total  number of officers re-trained in cardiopulmonary
    17  resuscitation in the past calendar year.
    18    § 5. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    19  have become a law.