Bill Text: NY S04704 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 4704

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires the municipal police training council to ensure that issues related to motorcycle profiling are addressed in basic law enforcement training.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S04704 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04704-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          4704

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 13, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. SANDERS, MAY -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to motorcycle profiling

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

     1    Section  1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 839-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 839-a. Motorcycle profiling. 1. The municipal police training  coun-
     4  cil  shall  ensure  that  issues  related  to  motorcycle  profiling are
     5  addressed in basic law enforcement training and  offered  to  in-service
     6  law enforcement officers in conjunction with existing training regarding
     7  profiling.
     8    2.  Local  law  enforcement  agencies shall add a statement condemning
     9  motorcycle profiling to existing policies regarding profiling.
    10    3. For the purposes of this section, "motorcycle profiling" means  the
    11  illegal use of the fact that a person rides a motorcycle or wears motor-
    12  cycle-related  paraphernalia  as  a factor in deciding to stop and ques-
    13  tion, take enforcement action, arrest, or search  a  person  or  vehicle
    14  with  or  without  a legal basis under the United States constitution or
    15  New York state constitution.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    17  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    18  repeal  of  any rules or regulations necessary for the implementation of
    19  the foregoing provisions of this act on its effective date  are  author-
    20  ized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09535-01-3