Bill Text: NY A10268 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for the establishment and implementation on an ongoing basis of a mental health first aid training program for all current and new police officers and peace officers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-15 - referred to codes [A10268 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10268-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10268

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 15, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Woerner) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing a  mental
          health  first aid training program for police officers and peace offi-
          cers

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  840  of the executive law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (n) to read as follows:
     3    (n) Establishment and implementation on an ongoing basis of  a  mental
     4  health  first  aid training program for all current and new police offi-
     5  cers and peace officers.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
     7  law.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15339-01-4