STATE OF NEW YORK
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3196
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 4, 2019
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Introduced by Sens. PARKER, BENJAMIN -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations
and Government Operations
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the authority of the
attorney general to review incidents where a civilian is killed by a
police officer
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 63 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 17 to read as follows:
3 17. Review any incident involving the conduct of a police officer in
4 connection with the performance of his or her official duties, wherein
5 such conduct is alleged to have caused the serious injury or death of a
6 civilian, within sixty days of the incident. Upon such review, the
7 attorney general shall determine whether the incident being brought
8 forth will remain within the jurisdiction of the local district attor-
9 ney's office or be prosecuted under the jurisdiction of a special prose-
10 cutor appointed by the governor.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
12 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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