Bill Text: NY S04434 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Removes police officer discipline from collective bargaining in municipalities in the state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS [S04434 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S04434-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          4434

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 4, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  MAY  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions

        AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation  to  removing  police
          officer discipline from collective bargaining in the state

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

     1    Section 1. The civil service law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  204-b to read as follows:
     3    §  204-b. Disciplinary practices for police officers. 1. Notwithstand-
     4  ing any inconsistent provision of law to the contrary, including but not
     5  limited to, sections two hundred through two  hundred  fifteen  of  this
     6  article or decisions regarding such subject matter, all matters relating
     7  to  the  discipline  of  police  officers, including but not limited to,
     8  matters relating to investigations, hearing procedures or penalty deter-
     9  minations, shall be a prohibited subject of bargaining between the muni-
    10  cipality and such municipality's law enforcement labor  employee  organ-
    11  izations.   Such  matters  are  expressly  removed  from  the  scope  of
    12  collective bargaining. Any collective bargaining  agreement  or  portion
    13  thereof,  or  custom or practice related to matters of police discipline
    14  between the municipality and such municipality's law enforcement employ-
    15  ee organizations inconsistent with the provisions of  this  section  are
    16  hereby  declared to be void. All matters of police discipline are hereby
    17  reserved for determination by the municipality.
    18    2. Sections seventy-five and seventy-six of this chapter shall not  be
    19  applicable  with  respect  to  all  matters  relating to law enforcement
    20  personnel in municipalities in the state.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01829-01-1
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