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                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
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 Introduced  by  Sens.  GALLIVAN,  BORRELLO,  OBERACKER -- read twice and
   ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
   Codes
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the criminal procedure law and the education law, in
   relation to expanding the geographical area of employment of universi-
   ty police officers; and to repeal paragraph (d) of subdivision 34-a of
   section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law relating thereto
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  (a) of subdivision 34-a of section 1.20 of the
 criminal procedure law, as amended by chapter 428 of the laws  of  1999,
 is amended to read as follows:
   (a)  [Except  as  provided  in paragraph (d) of this subdivision,] New
 York state constitutes the "geographical  area  of  employment"  of  any
 police  officer  employed  as  such  by  an agency of the state or by an
 authority which functions throughout the  state,  or  a  police  officer
 designated by the superintendent of state police pursuant to section two
 hundred twenty-three of the executive law;
   § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 34-a of section 1.20 of the criminal
 procedure law, as amended by chapter 424 of the laws of 1998, is amended
 to read as follows:
   (a)  [Except as provided in paragraph (d),] New York state constitutes
 the "geographical area of employment" of any police officer employed  as
 such  by  an  agency  of  the  state  or by an authority which functions
 throughout the state;
   § 3. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 34-a of section 1.20 of the criminal
 procedure law is REPEALED.
   § 4. Paragraph l of subdivision 2 of section 355 of the education law,
 as amended by chapter 424 of the laws of 1998, is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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   l.  To appoint university police officers who shall have the powers of
 police  officers  and  to  remove  such  police  officers  at  pleasure;
 provided,  however, that any person appointed a police officer must have
 satisfactorily completed or complete within one  year  of  the  date  of
 [his]  appointment  a course of law enforcement training approved by the
 municipal police training council in consultation with  the  university.
 [It  shall be the duty of such police officers to preserve law and order
 on the campuses and other property  of  the  university,  including  any
 portion of a public highway which crosses or abuts such property.]
   Subject  to  the  approval  of  the  chancellor, the president of each
 state-operated campus of the state university [shall] MAY enter  into  a
 written  agreement  with adjoining law enforcement agencies establishing
 protocols for the exercise of authority by such university police  offi-
 cer off-campus, including mutual aid and assistance. Such written proto-
 cols  shall  not  be  deemed  to supersede the authority of other police
 officers.  The provisions of this paragraph shall not apply  to  any  of
 the state institutions and property referred to in section five thousand
 seven hundred nine of this chapter.
   §  5.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
 the amendments to paragraph (a) of subdivision 34-a of section  1.20  of
 the  criminal  procedure  law  made  by section one of this act shall be
 subject to the expiration and reversion of such  paragraph  pursuant  to
 section 3 of chapter 428 of the laws of 1999, as amended, when upon such
 date the provisions of section two of this act shall take effect.