Bill Text: NY A04836 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts the "Wandering Officers Act" prohibiting provisional or permanent appointment of a person as a police officer if such person has previously been fired as a police officer from any jurisdiction within or without the state, if such person left a position as a police officer either while under an investigation or while being the subject of a disciplinary action which could result in termination from any jurisdiction within or without the state, or if such person resigned while criminal charges were pending stemming from actions committed while on duty as a police officer in any jurisdiction within or without the state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A04836 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04836-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4836

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. RAMOS, DINOWITZ, MAGNARELLI, JACKSON, ZINERMAN,
          SIMON, FORREST -- read once and referred to the Committee  on  Govern-
          mental Operations

        AN  ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to enacting the "Wander-
          ing Officers Act" prohibiting the  hiring  of  certain  persons  as  a
          police officer

          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  the "Wandering Officers Act."
     3    §  2.  Section  840  of  the  executive law is amended by adding a new
     4  subdivision 2-c to read as follows:
     5    2-c. The council shall promulgate  rules  and  regulations  concerning
     6  eligibility  of  persons for provisional or permanent appointment in the
     7  competitive class of the civil service as police officers of any  police
     8  agency  or  the  division of state police to prohibit the provisional or
     9  permanent appointment of a person as a police officer if such person has
    10  previously been fired as a police officer from any  jurisdiction  within
    11  or without the state, if such person left a position as a police officer
    12  either  while  under  an  investigation  or while being the subject of a
    13  disciplinary action which could result in termination from any jurisdic-
    14  tion within or without the state, or if such person resigned while crim-
    15  inal charges were pending stemming from actions committed while on  duty
    16  as a police officer in any jurisdiction within or without the state.
    17    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08294-01-3