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--A
                               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
        AN ACT to amend the executive law and the  administrative  code  of  the
          city  of New York, in relation to requiring members of the division of
          state police and police officers of the police department of the  city
          of  New  York  to be trained and retrained in cardiopulmonary resusci-
          tation
          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. Subdivision b of section 14-165 of the administrative code of the
    16  city of New York, as added by local law number 137 of the  city  of  New
    17  York for the year 2016, is amended to read as follows:
    18    b.  Training.  The department shall [identify when] require all police
    19  officer trainees to complete training in  cardiopulmonary  resuscitation
    20  and automated external defibrillation [training is appropriate] prior to
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06814-05-7
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     1  their  graduation  from the department academy and [provide all relevant
     2  staff] shall require every member of the  department  to  complete  such
     3  training  [and  re-training] every two years thereafter.  The curriculum
     4  of such training and re-training shall, where practicable, be consistent
     5  with  standards  developed  by  a  nationally recognized organization or
     6  association.
     7    § 4. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
     8  have become a law.