Bill Text: NY A01500 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Designates security hospital treatment assistants in the office of mental health as peace officers while performing duties in or arising out of the course of such person's employment.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-2)

Status: (Passed) 2014-12-17 - signed chap.484 [A01500 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A01500-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        1500--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER, COOK, ORTIZ, MONTESANO, BRINDISI, ROSA,
         TENNEY, SKOUFIS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.  of  A.  JAFFEE,  LUPARDO,
         MARKEY,  PEOPLES-STOKES,  RIVERA, WEISENBERG -- read once and referred
         to the Committee on Codes -- recommitted to the Committee on Codes  in
         accordance  with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
         amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
         tee
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  criminal  procedure law, in relation to certain
         persons designated as peace officers
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision  52 of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure
    2  law, as added by chapter 969 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read  as
    3  follows:
    4    52.  Security  hospital  treatment assistants, as so designated by the
    5  commissioner of the office of mental health while [transporting  persons
    6  convicted  of a crime to court, to other facilities within the jurisdic-
    7  tion of the office of mental health, or to any state  or  local  correc-
    8  tional  facility]  PERFORMING  DUTIES IN OR ARISING OUT OF THE COURSE OF
    9  THEIR EMPLOYMENT; provided, however, that nothing  in  this  subdivision
   10  shall  be deemed to authorize such employee to carry, possess, repair or
   11  dispose of a firearm unless the appropriate license  therefor  has  been
   12  issued pursuant to section 400.00 of THE penal law.
   13    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
   14  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.
                                                                  LBD02398-02-4