New York A 10026: Relates to the completion of training requirements for sheriffs and undersheriffs

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A10026 Summary:

BILL NOA10026 

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SAME ASSAME AS S01982-A

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SPONSORCashman

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §209-q, Gen Muni L; amd §§840 & 841, Exec L

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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.

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BILL NOA10026 

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01/30/2026referred to local governments

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 10026

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 30, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. CASHMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Local Governments

 AN ACT to amend the general municipal law and the executive 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 or a certificate provided pursuant to subdivision
 13 three-b of section eight hundred forty-one of the executive law; and
 14 every person who is appointed on a temporary basis or for a probationary
 15 term or on other than a permanent basis as a police officer of any coun-
 16 ty, city, town, village or police district shall forfeit [his] their
 17 position as such unless [he] such person previously has satisfactorily
 18 completed, or within the time prescribed by regulations promulgated by
 19 the governor pursuant to section eight hundred forty-two of the execu-
 20 tive law, satisfactorily completes, a municipal police basic training
 21 program for temporary or probationary police officers and is awarded a
 22 certificate by such director attesting thereto or a certificate provided
 23 pursuant to subdivision three-b of section eight hundred forty-one of
 24 the executive law. An elected or appointed sheriff may apply for a
 25 certificate provided pursuant to subdivision three-b of section eight
 26 hundred forty-one of the executive law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04728-04-6

 A. 10026 2

 1 § 2. Section 840 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
 2 subdivision 9 to read as follows:
 3 9. The council, in consultation with the superintendent of state
 4 police, shall promulgate rules and regulations with respect to:
 5 (a) determining qualifications and credentials of persons previously
 6 appointed to the New York state police force as a sworn member, which
 7 may include successful completion of a basic training program at the
 8 state police academy, that are substantially equivalent to an approved
 9 municipal police basic training program under this article and which
 10 shall satisfy the requirements of section two hundred nine-q of the
 11 general municipal law, in lieu of the certificate awarded by the execu-
 12 tive director of the municipal police training council attesting to
 13 satisfactory completion of an approved municipal police basic training
 14 program; and
 15 (b) the form and manner in which a person may apply to receive a
 16 certificate attesting that such person's qualifications