Requires non-profit violence intervention programs to ensure violence interrupters are paid equally to police officers of equal experience working in the municipality in which the program is located.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8148
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
July 7, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. ZINERMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring violence
intervention programs to ensure violence interrupters are paid equally
to police officers
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 636-a
2 to read as follows:
3 § 636-a. Violence interrupters. Any person employed as a violence
4 interrupter, as such term may be defined by the office, by a community-
5 based violence intervention program or hospital-based violence inter-
6 vention program, as established by section six hundred thirty-six of
7 this article, or by any other non-profit organization established for
8 the purpose of violence prevention, shall be paid a salary that is equal
9 to the amount that a police officer with an equal number of years of
10 experience to such violence interrupter employed within the same munici-
11 pality in which such program is located is paid.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
13 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11689-01-1
