STATE OF NEW YORK
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8586
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
November 19, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to prohibiting state or
local police from accepting military surplus equipment from the feder-
al government
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 837-z
2 to read as follows:
3 § 837-z. Military surplus equipment. Notwithstanding any other law,
4 rule or regulation to the contrary, any law enforcement agency within
5 this state shall be prohibited from accepting military surplus equipment
6 from the federal government. For the purposes of this section, the term
7 "law enforcement agency" shall include any member, officer, chief, or
8 other employee of the division of state police, or of any local or
9 municipal police department.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03328-02-5
