Bill Text: NY S03336 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 3336

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires police officer training programs on interacting with individuals with a disability with special emphasis on the techniques needed to improve interactions with individuals that are blind or deaf or hard of hearing; provides such training shall be created in consultation with the justice center for the protection of people with special needs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CODES [S03336 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03336-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3336

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 30, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  MAYER  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring police offi-
          cer training programs on interacting with individuals with a disabili-
          ty

          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  train-
     4  ing  program  for all current and new police officers and peace officers
     5  regarding how to interact with individuals with a disability as  defined
     6  in  subdivision  twenty-one  of  section  two hundred ninety-two of this
     7  chapter, with special emphasis  on  the  techniques  needed  to  improve
     8  interactions with individuals that are blind or deaf or hard of hearing.
     9  The  content  of  such training program shall be created in consultation
    10  with the justice center for the protection of people with special  needs
    11  as established under article twenty of this chapter.
    12    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
    13  the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
    14  addition, amendment and/or repeal of  any  rule  or  regulation  by  the
    15  municipal  police  training  council necessary for the implementation of
    16  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
    17  on or before such effective date.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06986-01-3