Bill Text: NY A10686 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to prohibiting police officers from carrying or using a weapon during any phase of the officer's official duties unless the officer has satisfactorily completed a course of training that meets or exceeds the minimum standards established by the municipal police training council.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-17 - REFERRED TO RULES [A10686 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A10686-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10686
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      June 13, 2016
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Blake) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments
        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in  relation  to  prohibiting
          police  officers  from  carrying or using a weapon during any phase of
          the officer's official duties unless the  officer  has  satisfactorily
          completed a course of training that meets or exceeds the minimum stan-
          dards established by the municipal police training council
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraphs (b) and (c) of subdivision 1 of section 209-q of
     2  the general municipal law are relettered paragraphs (c) and  (d)  and  a
     3  new paragraph (b) is added to read as follows:
     4    (b)  No employer shall allow any police officer it employs to carry or
     5  use a weapon during any phase of the officer's  official  duties,  which
     6  constitutes  on-duty  employment,  unless the officer has satisfactorily
     7  completed a course of training that meets or exceeds the minimum  stand-
     8  ards  established by the municipal police training council in the use of
     9  deadly physical force and  firearms  and  other  weapons,  and  annually
    10  receives  instruction  in  the use of deadly physical force and firearms
    11  and other weapons that meets or exceeds  the  minimum  standards  estab-
    12  lished by the municipal police training council. All employers of police
    13  officers  shall  conduct,  or provide through another organization, such
    14  training required by  this  subdivision  with  sufficient  frequency  to
    15  ensure  there  is no impact on a police officer's on-duty employment due
    16  to lack of available training.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    18  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15859-01-6