Assembly Bill A9261

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requires the municipal police training council to promulgate rules and regulations regarding psychological evaluations for certain members of a police force

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A9261 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §840, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A9395
2013-2014: A2056
2015-2016: A7311
2017-2018: A5895
2019-2020: A2152
2023-2024: A1367

2021-A9261 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the municipal police training council to promulgate rules and regulations regarding psychological evaluations for certain members of the police force of a city with a population of one million or more.

2021-A9261 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9261
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 9, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. EPSTEIN, TAYLOR -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
   SAYEGH  --  read  once  and  referred to the Committee on Governmental
   Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring the  munici-
   pal  police  training  council  to  promulgate  regulations  regarding
   psychological evaluations

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of  section  840 of the executive law, as
 amended by section 8 of part BBB of chapter 59 of the laws of  2021,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   2.  A.  The council shall promulgate, and may from time to time amend,
 such rules and regulations prescribing height, weight, physical  fitness
 and  psychological  requirements  for  eligibility of persons for provi-
 sional or permanent appointment in the competitive class  of  the  civil
 service  as police officers of any county, city, town, village or police
 district as it deems necessary and proper for the efficient  performance
 of police duties.
   B.  THE COUNCIL, IN ADDITION TO THE RULES AND REGULATIONS SET FORTH IN
 PARAGRAPH A OF THIS SUBDIVISION, SHALL PROMULGATE, AND MAY FROM TIME  TO
 TIME  AMEND, SUCH RULES AND REGULATIONS, REQUIRING EVERY POLICE OFFICER,
 APPOINTED IN THE COMPETITIVE CLASS OF THE SERVICE, FOR ANY CITY  WITH  A
 POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE, TO UNDERGO A PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION
 UPON  ENTRY  INTO SUCH SERVICE, AND UPON EVERY THIRD YEAR THEREAFTER, TO
 DETERMINE WHETHER SUCH OFFICER HAS  POST-TRAUMATIC  STRESS  DISORDER  OR
 ANGER MANAGEMENT ISSUES, WHICH MAY AFFECT HIS OR HER ABILITY TO SERVE AS
 A  POLICE OFFICER, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVISION
 SHALL NOT APPLY TO POLICE OFFICERS WHO ARE NOT  ASSIGNED  TO  PRECINCTS,
 WHO  ARE  NOT  ASSIGNED TO ACTIVE DUTY ON PATROL OR WHO SUPERVISE POLICE
 PERSONNEL WHO ARE ASSIGNED TO ACTIVE DUTY ON PATROL.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08187-02-2

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