Bill Text: NY A05449 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Prohibits the use of chemical agents by police officers against minors under the age of eighteen.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 35-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to governmental operations [A05449 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A05449-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5449--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 16, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. MEEKS, CLARK, LUNSFORD, DE LA ROSA, FERNANDEZ,
          EPSTEIN, ANDERSON, McDONALD, KELLES, TAYLOR, HEVESI, JACKSON, GALLAGH-
          ER, SIMON, MAMDANI, MITAYNES, BARRON, BURDICK, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, HUNTER,
          DICKENS -- read once and referred to  the  Committee  on  Governmental
          Operations -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to prohibiting the use of
          chemical agents by police officers against minors

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 4 of section 840 of the execu-
     2  tive law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 5 to read as follows:
     3    (5) The model law enforcement use of force policy  and  every  use  of
     4  force  policy  established  pursuant to subparagraph three of this para-
     5  graph shall prohibit the use of any chemical agent, including,  but  not
     6  limited  to,  oleoresin  capsicum, pepper spray and tear gas against any
     7  minor under the age of eighteen in any circumstance.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09347-04-1