Exempts retired federal agents and border patrol agents who have been retired for a period not to exceed ten years from training requirements for security guards.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4883
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 22, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. ORTT -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to exempting
retired federal agents and border patrol agents from training require-
ments for security guards
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph g of subdivision 4 of section 89-n of the general
2 business law, as added by chapter 221 of the laws of 2003, is amended
3 and a new paragraph h is added to read as follows:
4 g. a peace officer as defined in subdivisions two, twenty and twenty-
5 five and paragraphs a and b of subdivision twenty-one of section 2.10 of
6 the criminal procedure law who has been retired from such employment for
7 a period not to exceed ten years, provided, however, that a retired
8 peace officer who has been retired from such employment for a period in
9 excess of ten years shall be required to provide proof to his or her
10 security guard employer of his or her satisfactory completion of an
11 eight hour annual in-service training course approved by the municipal
12 police training council, and provided further, however, that a retired
13 peace officer who will be required by his or her security guard employer
14 to carry a firearm or will be authorized to have access to a firearm
15 shall provide to such employer proof of his or her satisfactory
16 completion of a forty-seven hour firearms training course approved by
17 the municipal police training council and, if such firearms training
18 course has not been completed within one year prior to employment,
19 satisfactory completion of an additional eight hour annual firearms
20 in-service training course approved by the municipal police training
21 council, such training course to be completed at least annually[.]; or
22 h. a retired federal agent or retired border patrol agent who has been
23 retired from such employment for a period not to exceed ten years,
24 provided that such individual provides proof of his or her satisfactory
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 completion of training substantially similar to the training set forth
2 in this section.
3 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and the secretary of state
4 is hereby authorized to add, amend and/or repeal any rule or regulation
5 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date.
