Assembly Bill A3836

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the completion of training requirements for sheriffs and undersheriffs

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2025-A3836 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1982
Current Committee:
Assembly Local Governments
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §209-q, Gen Muni L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S9264
2023-2024: A7086, S2695

2025-A3836 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the completion of training requirements for sheriffs and undersheriffs.

2025-A3836 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3836
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 30, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. JONES -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Local Governments
 
 AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to the completion
   of training requirements for sheriffs and undersheriffs
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision 1 of section 209-q of the
 general municipal law, as amended by chapter 735 of the laws of 1988, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general,  special  or  local
 law or charter to the contrary, no person shall, after July first, nine-
 teen hundred sixty, receive an original appointment on a permanent basis
 as  a  police  officer  of  any  county,  city,  town, village or police
 district unless such person has previously been awarded a certificate by
 the executive director of the municipal police training council  created
 under  article thirty-five of the executive law, attesting to [his] SUCH
 PERSON'S satisfactory completion of an approved municipal  police  basic
 training program; and every person who is appointed on a temporary basis
 or  for  a  probationary  term  or  on other than a permanent basis as a
 police officer of any county, city, town,  village  or  police  district
 shall  forfeit  [his]  THEIR  position  as  such unless [he] SUCH PERSON
 previously has satisfactorily completed, or within the  time  prescribed
 by  regulations  promulgated  by  the governor pursuant to section eight
 hundred forty-two of the  executive  law,  satisfactorily  completes,  a
 municipal  police  basic  training program for temporary or probationary
 police officers and is awarded a certificate by such director  attesting
 thereto.    AN ELECTED OR APPOINTED SHERIFF OR UNDERSHERIFF SHALL NOT BE
 SUBJECT TO THE TRAINING REQUIREMENTS OF THIS SECTION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04728-01-5

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