Bill Text: NY A00681 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 681

Introduced

Bill Title: Prohibits prior peace officers or police officers whose position as such was terminated or vacated due to misconduct from again becoming a peace officer or a police officer.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A00681 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00681-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           681

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 11, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. CARROLL, TAYLOR, SEAWRIGHT, EPSTEIN, FORREST,
          SIMON, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, DAVILA, MAMDANI -- read once  and  referred  to
          the Committee on Governmental Operations

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  executive law, in relation to prohibiting prior
          peace officers or police officers whose position as  such  was  termi-
          nated or vacated due to misconduct from again becoming a peace officer
          or a police officer

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

     1    Section 1. Section 837-w of the executive law, as added by chapter 219
     2  of the laws of 2022 is renumbered section 837-x.
     3    § 2. The executive law is amended by adding a  new  section  837-y  to
     4  read as follows:
     5    § 837-y. Peace officers and police officers terminated for misconduct.
     6  No  person  shall  be  a  peace  officer  or a police officer where such
     7  person's prior position as a peace  officer  or  a  police  officer  was
     8  terminated or vacated due to such person's misconduct.
     9    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01059-01-3