A 3836: Relates to the completion of training requirements for sheriffs and undersheriffs; directs the municipal police training council to promulgate rules and regulations relating to qualification for municipal police forces for persons who were previously sworn members of the state police and to provide certificates to such persons who meet such qualifications.
The proposed law aims to improve law enforcement training in New York State. To become a permanent police officer in any county, city, town, village, or police district, a person must have completed an approved municipal police basic training program or a certificate provided by the state. Those appointed on a temporary or probationary basis must complete a separate training program and receive a certificate within a specified timeframe. An elected or appointed sheriff may apply for a certificate, and the state police superintendent will determine the qualifications and credentials required to substitute for an approved municipal police basic training program. The law also establishes a process for issuing certificates to police officers with substantially equivalent qualifications and credentials. The law takes effect immediately.
| Sep. 08, 2025 | enacting clause stricken |
| May. 28, 2025 | reported referred to rules |
| May. 23, 2025 | print number 3836a |
| May. 23, 2025 | amend (t) and recommit to local governments |
| Jan. 30, 2025 | referred to local governments |
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3836 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY 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: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 209-q of the 2 general municipal law, as amended by chapter 735 of the laws of 1988, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local 5 law or charter to the contrary, no person shall, after July first, nine- 6 teen hundred sixty, receive an original appointment on a permanent basis 7 as a police officer of any county, city, town, village or police 8 district unless such person has previously been awarded a certificate by 9 the executive director of the municipal police training council created 10 under article thirty-five of the executive law, attesting to [his] such 11 person's satisfactory completion of an approved municipal police basic 12 training program; and every person who is appointed on a temporary basis 13 or for a probationary term or on other than a permanent basis as a 14 police officer of any county, city, town, village or police district 15 shall forfeit [his] their position as such unless [he] such person 16 previously has satisfactorily completed, or within the time prescribed 17 by regulations promulgated by the governor pursuant to section eight 18 hundred forty-two of the executive law, satisfactorily completes, a 19 municipal police basic training program for temporary or probationary 20 police officers and is awarded a certificate by such director attesting 21 thereto. An elected or appointed sheriff or undersheriff shall not be 22 subject to the training requirements of this section. 23 § 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