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                                  8232

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 12, 2015
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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:

  Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
"Briana's Law".
  S 2. The general municipal law is amended  by  adding  a  new  section
208-h to read as follows:
  S   208-H.   BIENNIAL  POLICE  OFFICER  CARDIOPULMONARY  RESUSCITATION
RETRAINING. 1. EVERY POLICE OFFICER IN A CITY, COUNTY, TOWN  OR  VILLAGE
SHALL, EVERY TWO YEARS BE:
  A.  RETRAINED  IN CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION AS DEFINED BY SUBDIVI-
SION SIX OF SECTION SIX HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE OF THE GENERAL BUSINESS  LAW;
AND
  B.  REQUIRED TO DEMONSTRATE THE SATISFACTORY COMPLETION OF TRAINING IN
CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION.
  2. THE COST OF SUCH RETRAINING SHALL  BE  THE  RESPONSIBILITY  OF  THE
POLICE  OFFICER,  PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,  THAT  THE  CITY, COUNTY, TOWN, OR
VILLAGE MAY, AT LOCAL OPTION, REIMBURSE THE POLICE OFFICER FOR ALL OR  A
PORTION  OF THE COST OF SUCH RETRAINING OR MAY, AT LOCAL OPTION, PROVIDE
ITS OWN RETRAINING PROGRAM PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH A OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF
THIS SECTION TO SUCH POLICE OFFICERS.
  S 3. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 232 to  read
as follows:
  S  232.  BIENNIAL  STATE  POLICE OFFICER CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION
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.
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  A. RETRAINED IN CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION AS DEFINED  BY  SUBDIVI-
SION  SIX OF SECTION SIX HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE OF THE GENERAL BUSINESS LAW;
AND
  B.  REQUIRED TO DEMONSTRATE THE SATISFACTORY COMPLETION OF TRAINING IN
CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION.
  2. THE COST OF SUCH RETRAINING SHALL  BE  THE  RESPONSIBILITY  OF  THE
STATE  POLICE  OFFICER,  PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,  THAT THE STATE MAY, AT THE
DISCRETION OF THE SUPERINTENDENT, REIMBURSE THE STATE POLICE OFFICER FOR
ALL OR A PORTION  OF  THE  COST  OF  SUCH  RETRAINING  OR  MAY,  AT  THE
DISCRETION  OF  THE  SUPERINTENDENT,  PROVIDE ITS OWN RETRAINING PROGRAM
PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH A OF SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF  THIS  SECTION  TO  SUCH
POLICE OFFICERS.
  S  4.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
have become a law.