S 4610: Provides that correction officers designated as peace officers employed as peace officers by another state or local agency shall not be required to complete duplicate training or instruction.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4610 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 10, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PALUMBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to training requirements for certain peace officers The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 2.30 of the criminal procedure 2 law, as amended by chapter 491 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read 3 as follows: 4 1. Every peace officer in the state of New York must successfully 5 complete a training program, a portion of which shall be prescribed by 6 the municipal police training council and a portion of which shall be 7 prescribed by [his or her] such officer's employer. The portion 8 prescribed by the municipal police training council shall be comprised 9 of subjects, and the hours each is to be taught, that shall be required 10 of all types or classes of peace officers. The hours of instruction 11 required by the municipal police training council shall not exceed one 12 hundred eighty, unless a greater amount is either required by law or 13 regulation, or is requested by the employer. Provided, however, that 14 correction officers designated as peace officers under subdivision twen- 15 ty-five of section 2.10 of this article who are employed as peace offi- 16 cers by another state or local agency shall not be required to complete 17 duplicate training or instruction in subjects which they have success- 18 fully completed for employment as a correction officer. 19 The segment prescribed by the employer for its employees shall be 20 comprised of subjects, and the hours each is to be taught, relating to 21 the special nature of the duties of the peace officers employed by it 22 provided, however, that when the subjects prescribed by the employer are 23 identical to the subjects in the training program required by the munic- 24 ipal police training council, the employer shall not be required to 25 provide duplicate training for those subjects. 26 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD08949-01-5