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

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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]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2115
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 17, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Local Governments
        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    § 2. The general municipal law is amended  by  adding  a  new  section
     4  208-h to read as follows:
     5    §   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    § 3. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 233 to  read
    14  as follows:
    15    §  233.  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    §  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.
                                                                   LBD06814-01-7