Bill Text: NY S06717 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes Briana's law requiring biennial CPR training for police officers.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-09 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S06717 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S06717-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6717 IN SENATE February 9, 2016 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MARTINS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government AN ACT to amend the general municipal law and the executive law, in relation to requiring police officers to be retrained in cardiopulmo- nary resuscitation every two years The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as 2 "Briana's Law". 3 § 2. The general municipal law is amended by adding a new section 4 208-h to read as follows: 5 § 208-h. Biennial police officer cardiopulmonary resuscitation 6 retraining. Every police officer in a city, county, town or village 7 shall, every two years be: 8 1. retrained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation as defined by subdivi- 9 sion six of section six hundred twenty-one of the general business law; 10 and 11 2. required to demonstrate the satisfactory completion of training in 12 cardiopulmonary resuscitation. 13 § 3. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 233 to read 14 as follows: 15 § 233. Biennial state police officer cardiopulmonary resuscitation 16 retraining. Every state police officer shall, every two years be: 17 1. retrained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation as defined by subdivi- 18 sion six of section six hundred twenty-one of the general business law; 19 and 20 2. required to demonstrate the satisfactory completion of training in 21 cardiopulmonary resuscitation. 22 § 4. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 23 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03002-08-6