Senate Bill S4704

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to motorcycle profiling

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Finance Committee

  • 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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2023-S4704 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9187
Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Add §839-a, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A9974
2013-2014: S7424, A3594
2015-2016: S3764, A3147
2017-2018: S4506, A481
2019-2020: S2246, A3518
2021-2022: S3860, A1747

2023-S4704 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the municipal police training council to ensure that issues related to motorcycle profiling are addressed in basic law enforcement training.

2023-S4704 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S4704 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4704
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 13, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. SANDERS, MAY -- 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 motorcycle profiling
 
   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 839-a
 to read as follows:
   § 839-A. MOTORCYCLE PROFILING. 1. THE MUNICIPAL POLICE TRAINING  COUN-
 CIL  SHALL  ENSURE  THAT  ISSUES  RELATED  TO  MOTORCYCLE  PROFILING ARE
 ADDRESSED IN BASIC LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING AND  OFFERED  TO  IN-SERVICE
 LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS IN CONJUNCTION WITH EXISTING TRAINING REGARDING
 PROFILING.
   2.  LOCAL  LAW  ENFORCEMENT  AGENCIES SHALL ADD A STATEMENT CONDEMNING
 MOTORCYCLE PROFILING TO EXISTING POLICIES REGARDING PROFILING.
   3. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "MOTORCYCLE PROFILING" MEANS  THE
 ILLEGAL USE OF THE FACT THAT A PERSON RIDES A MOTORCYCLE OR WEARS MOTOR-
 CYCLE-RELATED  PARAPHERNALIA  AS  A FACTOR IN DECIDING TO STOP AND QUES-
 TION, TAKE ENFORCEMENT ACTION, ARREST, OR SEARCH  A  PERSON  OR  VEHICLE
 WITH  OR  WITHOUT  A LEGAL BASIS UNDER THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION OR
 NEW YORK STATE CONSTITUTION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal  of  any rules or regulations necessary for the implementation of
 the foregoing provisions of this act on its effective date  are  author-
 ized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09535-01-3

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