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                                   1594
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 10, 2025
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection
 
 AN ACT to amend the general  business  law,  in  relation  to  exempting
   certain  officers  of  the departments of correction and sanitation of
   the city of New York from training requirements for  security  guards;
   and  to  amend  the criminal procedure law, in relation to designating
   correction officers of New York city as peace officers
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraphs a, f and g of subdivision 4 of section 89-n of
 the general business law, paragraphs a and f as amended and paragraph  g
 as added by chapter 221 of the laws of 2003, are amended and a new para-
 graph h is added to read as follows:
   a. a correction officer of any state correctional facility OR A MEMBER
 OF  THE  UNIFORMED  CORRECTION  FORCE OF THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF
 CORRECTION having the powers of a peace officer pursuant to  subdivision
 twenty-five of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law;
   f.  a police officer as defined in paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (e),
 (f), (j), (k), (l), (o) and (p) of subdivision  thirty-four  of  section
 1.20  of  the  criminal  procedure  law  who  has been retired from such
 employment for a period not to exceed ten years, provided, however, that
 a retired police officer who has been retired from such employment for a
 period in excess of ten years shall be required to provide proof to [his
 or her] SUCH RETIRED POLICE OFFICER'S security guard employer of [his or
 her] THEIR satisfactory completion of an eight  hour  annual  in-service
 training  course  approved  by  the  commissioner, and provided further,
 however, that a retired police officer who will be required by  [his  or
 her]  SUCH  RETIRED  POLICE OFFICER'S security guard employer to carry a
 firearm or will be authorized to have access to a firearm shall  provide
 to  such  employer  proof  of [his or her] SUCH RETIRED POLICE OFFICER'S
 satisfactory completion of a forty-seven hour firearms  training  course
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 approved  by  the commissioner and, if such firearms training course has
 not been completed within one year prior to such  employment,  satisfac-
 tory  completion  of an additional eight hour annual firearms in-service
 training course approved by the commissioner, such training course to be
 completed at least annually; [or]
   g.  a peace officer as defined in subdivisions two, twenty and twenty-
 five and paragraphs a and b of subdivision twenty-one of section 2.10 of
 the criminal procedure law who has been retired from such employment for
 a period not to exceed ten years,  provided,  however,  that  a  retired
 peace  officer who has been retired from such employment for a period in
 excess of ten years shall be required to provide proof to [his  or  her]
 SUCH  RETIRED  PEACE  OFFICER'S  security guard employer of [his or her]
 THEIR satisfactory completion of an eight hour annual in-service  train-
 ing  course  approved  by  the  municipal  police  training council, and
 provided further, however, that a retired  peace  officer  who  will  be
 required  by  [his  or  her] SUCH RETIRED PEACE OFFICER'S security guard
 employer to carry a firearm or will be authorized to have  access  to  a
 firearm  shall  provide  to  such  employer  proof  of [his or her] SUCH
 RETIRED PEACE OFFICER'S satisfactory completion of  a  forty-seven  hour
 firearms training course approved by the municipal police training coun-
 cil  and, if such firearms training course has not been completed within
 one year prior to employment, satisfactory completion of  an  additional
 eight  hour  annual  firearms in-service training course approved by the
 municipal police training council, such training course to be  completed
 at least annually[.]; OR
   H.  AN OFFICER OR MEMBER OF THE SANITATION POLICE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF
 SANITATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK HAVING THE POWERS OF A PEACE  OFFICER
 PURSUANT  TO  SUBDIVISION  FIFTY-NINE  OF  SECTION  2.10 OF THE CRIMINAL
 PROCEDURE LAW.
   § 2. Subdivision 25 of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law,  as
 amended  by  section 70 of subpart B of part C of chapter 62 of the laws
 of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   25. Officials, as designated by the commissioner of the department  of
 corrections  and  community supervision pursuant to rules of the depart-
 ment, and correction officers of any state OR NEW YORK CITY correctional
 facility or of any penal correctional institution.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.