Bill Text: NY A01554 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes Briana's law requiring biennial CPR training for police officers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-06 - reported referred to rules [A01554 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A01554-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1554
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 10, 2011
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       Introduced  by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Local Governments
       AN ACT to amend the general municipal  law,  in  relation  to  requiring
         police officers to be retrained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation every
         two years
         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    S  2.  The  general  municipal  law is amended by adding a new section
    4  208-h to read as follows:
    5    S  208-H.  BIENNIAL  POLICE  OFFICER   CARDIOPULMONARY   RESUSCITATION
    6  RETRAINING. EVERY POLICE OFFICER SHALL, EVERY TWO YEARS BE:
    7    1.  RETRAINED  IN CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION AS DEFINED BY SUBDIVI-
    8  SION SIX OF SECTION SIX HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE OF THE GENERAL BUSINESS  LAW;
    9  AND
   10    2.  REQUIRED TO DEMONSTRATE THE SATISFACTORY COMPLETION OF TRAINING IN
   11  CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION.
   12    S 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
   13  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD03972-01-1