Prohibits any employee of the state police to be directed by any state regulation, rule or executive order to not assist with the enforcement of federal law; further ensures any state regulation, rule or executive order directing the state police to not assist with the enforcement of federal law to be deemed null and void.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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IN SENATE
April 23, 2018
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Introduced by Sen. CROCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to prohibiting regu-
lations, rules or executive orders directing the state police to not
assist with the enforcement of federal law or cooperate with federal
law enforcement
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 233 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 233. Prohibition against regulations, rules or executive orders
4 directing the state police to not assist with the enforcement of federal
5 law or to not cooperate with federal law enforcement. 1. No employee of
6 the state police, including the superintendent, or any trooper, investi-
7 gator or other officer, shall be directed by any state regulation, rule
8 or executive order, to not assist with the enforcement of federal law or
9 to not cooperate with federal law enforcement in the effort to enforce
10 any provision of federal law.
11 2. Any state regulation, rule or executive order directing the state
12 police, including the superintendent, or any trooper, investigator or
13 other officer, to not assist with the enforcement of federal law or to
14 not cooperate with federal law enforcement in the effort to enforce any
15 provision of federal law, shall be deemed invalid, null and void.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15456-01-8
