Bill Text: NY S08980 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to expanding the geographical area of employment of university police officers; extends the jurisdiction of New York state university police officers from state university of New York property and abutting roadways to all areas of the state.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-21 - referred to codes [S08980 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S08980-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8980--A IN SENATE June 11, 2018 ___________ Introduced by Sen. JACOBS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law and the education law, in relation to expanding the geographical area of employment of universi- ty police officers; and to repeal paragraph (d) of subdivision 34-a of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law relating thereto The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 34-a of section 1.20 of the 2 criminal procedure law, as amended by chapter 428 of the laws of 1999, 3 is amended to read as follows: 4 (a) [Except as provided in paragraph (d) of this subdivision,] New 5 York state constitutes the "geographical area of employment" of any 6 police officer employed as such by an agency of the state or by an 7 authority which functions throughout the state, or a police officer 8 designated by the superintendent of state police pursuant to section two 9 hundred twenty-three of the executive law; 10 § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 34-a of section 1.20 of the criminal 11 procedure law, as amended by chapter 424 of the laws of 1998, is amended 12 to read as follows: 13 (a) [Except as provided in paragraph (d),] New York state constitutes 14 the "geographical area of employment" of any police officer employed as 15 such by an agency of the state or by an authority which functions 16 throughout the state; 17 § 3. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 34-a of section 1.20 of the criminal 18 procedure law is REPEALED. 19 § 4. Paragraph l of subdivision 2 of section 355 of the education law, 20 as amended by chapter 424 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as 21 follows: 22 l. To appoint university police officers who shall have the powers of 23 police officers and to remove such police officers at pleasure; 24 provided, however, that any person appointed a police officer must have EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14844-02-8S. 8980--A 2 1 satisfactorily completed or complete within one year of the date of his 2 appointment a course of law enforcement training approved by the munici- 3 pal police training council in consultation with the university. [It4shall be the duty of such police officers to preserve law and order on5the campuses and other property of the university, including any portion6of a public highway which crosses or abuts such property.] 7 Subject to the approval of the chancellor, the president of each 8 state-operated campus of the state university [shall] may enter into a 9 written agreement with adjoining law enforcement agencies establishing 10 protocols for the exercise of authority by such university police offi- 11 cer off-campus, including mutual aid and assistance. Such written proto- 12 cols shall not be deemed to supersede the authority of other police 13 officers. The provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to any of 14 the state institutions and property referred to in section five thousand 15 seven hundred nine of this chapter. 16 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that 17 the amendments to paragraph (a) of subdivision 34-a of section 1.20 of 18 the criminal procedure law made by section one of this act shall be 19 subject to the expiration and reversion of such paragraph pursuant to 20 section 3 of chapter 428 of the laws of 1999, as amended, when upon such 21 date the provisions of section two of this act shall take effect.