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Bill No.: Summary Actions Committee&nbspVotes Floor&nbspVotes Memo Text LFIN Chamber&nbspVideo/Transcript S01982 Summary: BILL NO S01982A &nbsp SAME AS SAME AS A10026

&nbsp SPONSOR HARCKHAM &nbsp COSPNSR ASHBY, JACKSON, O'MARA, ROLISON, STEC, WEBB &nbsp MLTSPNSR &nbsp Amd §209-q, Gen Muni L; amd §§840 & 841, Exec L &nbsp Relates to the completion of training requirements for sheriffs and undersheriffs; directs the municipal police training council to promulgate rules and regulations relating to qualification for municipal police forces for persons who were previously sworn members of the state police and to provide certificates to such persons who meet such qualifications.

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STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________

1982--A Cal. No. 1607

2025-2026 Regular Sessions

IN SENATE

January 14, 2025 ___________

Introduced by Sens. HARCKHAM, ASHBY, JACKSON, O'MARA, ROLISON, STEC, WEBB -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be commit- ted to the Committee on Local Government -- committee discharged and said bill committed to the Committee on Rules -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to a third reading, passed by Senate and delivered to the Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading

AN ACT to amend the general municipal law and the executive law, in relation to the completion of training requirements for sheriffs and undersheriffs

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 1 of section 209-q of the 2 general municipal law, as amended by chapter 735 of the laws of 1988, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local 5 law or charter to the contrary, no person shall, after July first, nine- 6 teen hundred sixty, receive an original appointment on a permanent basis 7 as a police officer of any county, city, town, village or police 8 district unless such person has previously been awarded a certificate by 9 the executive director of the municipal police training council created 10 under article thirty-five of the executive law, attesting to [ his ] such 11 person's satisfactory completion of an approved municipal police basic 12 training program or a certificate provided pursuant to subdivision 13 three-b of section eight hundred forty-one of the executive law ; and 14 every person who is appointed on a temporary basis or for a probationary 15 term or on other than a permanent basis as a police officer of any coun- 16 ty, city, town, village or police district shall forfeit [ his ] their 17 position as such unless [ he ] such person previously has satisfactorily 18 completed, or within the time prescribed by regulations promulgated by

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04728-03-5

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1 the governor pursuant to section eight hundred forty-two of the execu- 2 tive law, satisfactorily completes, a municipal police basic training 3 program for temporary or probationary police officers and is awarded a 4 certificate by such director attesting thereto or a certificate provided 5 pursuant to subdivision three-b of section eight hundred forty-one of 6 the executive law . An elected or appointed sheriff may apply for a 7 certificate provided pursuant to subdivision three-b of section eight 8 hundred forty-one of the executive law. 9 § 2. Section 840 of the executive law is amended by adding a new 10 subdivision 9 to read as follows: 11 9. The council, in consultation with the superintendent of state 12 police, shall promulgate rules and regulations with respect to: 13 (a) determining qualifications and credentials of persons previously 14 appointed to the New York state police force as a sworn member, which 15 may include successful completion of a basic training program at the 16 state police academy, that are substantially equivalent to an approved 17 municipal police basic training program under this article and which 18 shall satisfy the requirements of section two hundred nine-q of the 19 general municipal law, in lieu of the certificate awarded by the execu- 20 tive director of the municipal police training council attesting to 21 satisfactory completion of an approved municipal police basic training 22 program; and 23 (b) the form and manner in which a person may apply to receive a 24 certificate attesting that such person's qualifications and credentials 25 as a person previously appointed to the New York state police force as a 26 sworn member are substantially equivalent to satisfactory completion of 27 an approved municipal police basic training program. 28 § 3. Section 841 of the executive law is amended by adding a new 29 subdivision 3-b to read as follows: 30 3-b. Certify police officers who have qualifications and credentials 31 that the council has determined to be substantially equivalent to an 32 approved municipal police basic training program and issue certificates 33 to such police officers; 34 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

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