Bill Text: NY A10686 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
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
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10686 IN ASSEMBLY June 13, 2016 ___________ 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