Bill Text: NY S07023 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to providing for a refresher course for peace officers who have had an interruption in continuous service for less than ten years.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-06-19 - referred to codes [S07023 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S07023-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7023
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 16, 2014
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       Introduced  by  Sen. NOZZOLIO -- (at request of the Division of Criminal
         Justice Services) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when  printed
         to be committed to the Committee on Codes
       AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to providing for
         a  refresher course for peace officers who have had an interruption in
         continuous service for less than ten years
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision  6  of section 2.30 of the criminal procedure
    2  law, as amended by chapter 491 of the laws of 2010, is amended  to  read
    3  as follows:
    4    6.  A certificate attesting to satisfactory completion of the training
    5  requirements imposed under this section awarded to any peace officer  by
    6  the executive director of the municipal police training council pursuant
    7  to this section shall remain valid:
    8    (a) during the holder's continuous service as a peace officer; and
    9    (b)  for  two  years  after  the date of the commencement of an inter-
   10  ruption in such service where the holder had, immediately prior to  such
   11  interruption,  served  as  a peace officer for less than two consecutive
   12  years; or
   13    (c) for four years after the date of the  commencement  of  an  inter-
   14  ruption  in such service where the holder had, immediately prior to such
   15  interruption, served as a peace officer for  two  consecutive  years  or
   16  longer; OR
   17    (D)  WHERE  THE  HOLDER, WHOSE INTERRUPTION IN CONTINUOUS SERVICE AS A
   18  PEACE OFFICER OR AS A POLICE OFFICER DOES  NOT  EXCEED  TEN  YEARS,  HAS
   19  SATISFACTORILY  COMPLETED AN APPROVED PEACE OFFICER REFRESHER COURSE, AS
   20  PRESCRIBED BY THE MUNICIPAL POLICE TRAINING COUNCIL.
   21    As used in this subdivision, the  term  "interruption"  shall  mean  a
   22  period  of  separation  from  employment as a peace officer by reason of
   23  such officer's leave of absence,  resignation  or  removal,  other  than
   24  removal for cause.
   25    S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
   26  have become a law; provided, however, the commissioner of  the  division
   27  of  criminal  justice  services is authorized and directed to promulgate
   28  any rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of  this
   29  act on or before such effective date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD13898-02-4