Bill Text: NY A07284 | 2021-2022 | 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 10-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to governmental operations [A07284 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A07284-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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            S. 6489                                                  A. 7284

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                SENATE - ASSEMBLY

                                       May 3, 2021
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        IN  SENATE  --  Introduced  by  Sen.  BENJAMIN -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

        IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. RAMOS -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Governmental 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.
                                                                   LBD10886-06-1