Bill Text: NY A00424 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to prohibiting police officers from carrying or using a firearm during any phase of the officer's official duties unless the officer has satisfactorily completed a course of training that meets or exceeds the minimum standards established by the municipal police training council.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to local governments [A00424 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00424-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           424

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 9, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. EPSTEIN, ZINERMAN, MEEKS, ANDERSON, GONZALEZ-RO-
          JAS, SIMON, BURGOS, SEAWRIGHT, JACKSON -- read once  and  referred  to
          the Committee on Local Governments

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the executive law, in relation to prohibiting police
          officers from carrying or using a firearm  during  any  phase  of  the
          officer's  official  duties  unless  the  officer  has  satisfactorily
          completed a course of training that meets or exceeds the minimum stan-
          dards established by the municipal police training council

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 840-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 840-a. Municipal police; firearm use. No  municipality  shall  allow
     4  any police officer it employs to carry or use a firearm during any phase
     5  of  the officer's official duties, which constitutes on-duty employment,
     6  unless the officer has satisfactorily completed  a  course  of  training
     7  that meets or exceeds the minimum standards established by the municipal
     8  police  training  council  in  the  use  of  deadly  physical  force and
     9  firearms, and annually receives instruction in the use of  deadly  phys-
    10  ical  force  and  firearms  that  meets or exceeds the minimum standards
    11  established by the municipal police training council. All  employers  of
    12  police  officers shall conduct, or provide through another organization,
    13  such training required by this  section  with  sufficient  frequency  to
    14  ensure  there  is no impact on a police officer's on-duty employment due
    15  to lack of available training. A police officer shall not be transferred
    16  from his or her precinct, command, assignment, post, squad, or  tour  of
    17  duty  as  a  result  of  such employer's failure to provide the training
    18  required under this section. In addition,  such  employer's  failure  to
    19  provide  the  training  required  under  this section shall not impair a
    20  police officer's ability to carry a firearm while off-duty.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    22  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00152-01-3