Bill Text: NY S06717 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6717
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 9, 2016
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        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