Bill Text: NY S01851 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to designating certain medical providers employed by a municipal police department, while deployed with the special weapons and tactics team, as peace officers.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-01 - PRINT NUMBER 1851A [S01851 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S01851-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1851--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 11, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sens. ORTT, GALLIVAN, KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes -- recommitted to the Committee on Codes in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to designating tactical medical providers employed by a municipal police department as peace officers The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 85 to read as follows: 3 85. A tactical medical provider designated by the head of a municipal 4 police department or sheriff; provided, however, that nothing in this 5 subdivision shall be deemed to authorize such officer to carry, possess, 6 repair or dispose of a firearm unless the appropriate license therefor 7 has been issued pursuant to section 400.00 of the penal law. For 8 purposes of this subdivision a tactical medical provider shall mean a 9 licensed physician, paramedic or emergency medical technician. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04700-04-8
