Bill Text: NY A02602 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Designates police officers, special agents and criminal investigators of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs as peace officers; grants additional powers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-22 - held for consideration in codes [A02602 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A02602-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 19, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. RABBITT, KOLB, CALHOUN, RAIA, BURLING, HAWLEY --
read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to designating
police officers of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs 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 21 of section 2.15 of the criminal procedure
2 law, as added by chapter 549 of the laws of 1997, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 21. United States Department of Veterans [Administration] AFFAIRS
5 SPECIAL AGENTS, CRIMINAL INVESTIGATORS AND police officers [employed at
6 the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Batavia]; PROVIDED HOWEVER
7 THAT, NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF THIS SECTION TO THE CONTRARY,
8 THEY SHALL ALSO HAVE THE POWERS SET FORTH IN PARAGRAPH (B) OF SUBDIVI-
9 SION ONE OF SECTION 140.25 OF THIS CHAPTER AND THE POWERS SET FORTH IN
10 PARAGRAPHS (D), (E) AND (G) OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION 2.20 OF THIS
11 ARTICLE.
12 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03529-02-1
