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                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               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:
 
   Section  1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 636-a
 to read as follows:
   § 636-A. VIOLENCE INTERRUPTERS.   ANY PERSON EMPLOYED  AS  A  VIOLENCE
 INTERRUPTER,  AS SUCH TERM MAY BE DEFINED BY THE OFFICE, BY A COMMUNITY-
 BASED VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM OR  HOSPITAL-BASED  VIOLENCE  INTER-
 VENTION  PROGRAM,  AS  ESTABLISHED  BY SECTION SIX HUNDRED THIRTY-SIX OF
 THIS ARTICLE, OR BY ANY OTHER NON-PROFIT  ORGANIZATION  ESTABLISHED  FOR
 THE PURPOSE OF VIOLENCE PREVENTION, SHALL BE PAID A SALARY THAT IS EQUAL
 TO  THE  AMOUNT  THAT  A POLICE OFFICER WITH AN EQUAL NUMBER OF YEARS OF
 EXPERIENCE TO SUCH VIOLENCE INTERRUPTER EMPLOYED WITHIN THE SAME MUNICI-
 PALITY IN WHICH SUCH PROGRAM IS LOCATED IS PAID.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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