A08232 Summary:

BILL NOA08232
 
SAME ASNo Same As
 
SPONSOROrtiz
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Add S208-h, Gen Muni L; add S232, Exec L
 
Establishes Briana's law requiring biennial CPR training for police officers.
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A08232 Actions:

BILL NOA08232
 
06/12/2015referred to local governments
01/06/2016referred to local governments
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A08232 Committee Votes:

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A08232 Floor Votes:

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A08232 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          8232
 
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      June 12, 2015
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Local Governments
 
        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. 1. Every police officer in a city, county, town  or  village
     7  shall, every two years be:
     8    a.  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    b.  required to demonstrate the satisfactory completion of training in
    12  cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
    13    2. The cost of such retraining shall  be  the  responsibility  of  the
    14  police  officer,  provided,  however,  that  the  city, county, town, or
    15  village may, at local option, reimburse the police officer for all or  a
    16  portion  of the cost of such retraining or may, at local option, provide
    17  its own retraining program pursuant to paragraph a of subdivision one of
    18  this section to such police officers.
    19    § 3. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 232 to  read
    20  as follows:
    21    §  232.  Biennial  state  police officer cardiopulmonary resuscitation
    22  retraining. 1. Every state police officer shall, every two years be:
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03002-04-5

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     1    a. retrained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation as defined  by  subdivi-
     2  sion  six of section six hundred twenty-one of the general business law;
     3  and
     4    b.  required to demonstrate the satisfactory completion of training in
     5  cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
     6    2. The cost of such retraining shall  be  the  responsibility  of  the
     7  state  police  officer,  provided,  however,  that the state may, at the
     8  discretion of the superintendent, reimburse the state police officer for
     9  all or a portion  of  the  cost  of  such  retraining  or  may,  at  the
    10  discretion  of  the  superintendent,  provide its own retraining program
    11  pursuant to paragraph a of subdivision  one  of  this  section  to  such
    12  police officers.
    13    §  4.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    14  have become a law.
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