New York S 1594: Exempts certain officers of the departments of correction and sanitation of the city of New York from training requirements for security guards

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S01594 Summary:

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORLANZA

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Amd §89-n, Gen Bus L; amd §2.10, CP L

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Exempts certain officers of the department of correction and the department of sanitation of the city of New York from training requirements for security guards; designates correction officers of New York city as peace officers.

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01/10/2025REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 1594

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 10, 2025
 ___________

 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:

 1 Section 1. Paragraphs a, f and g of subdivision 4 of section 89-n of
 2 the general business law, paragraphs a and f as amended and paragraph g
 3 as added by chapter 221 of the laws of 2003, are amended and a new para-
 4 graph h is added to read as follows:
 5 a. a correction officer of any state correctional facility or a member
 6 of the uniformed correction force of the New York city department of
 7 correction having the powers of a peace officer pursuant to subdivision
 8 twenty-five of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law;
 9 f. a police officer as defined in paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (e),
 10 (f), (j), (k), (l), (o) and (p) of subdivision thirty-four of section
 11 1.20 of the criminal procedure law who has been retired from such
 12 employment for a period not to exceed ten years, provided, however, that
 13 a retired police officer who has been retired from such employment for a
 14 period in excess of ten years shall be required to provide proof to [his
 15 or her] such retired police officer's security guard employer of [his or
 16 her] their satisfactory completion of an eight hour annual in-service
 17 training course approved by the commissioner, and provided further,
 18 however, that a retired police officer who will be required by [his or
 19 her] such retired police officer's security guard employer to carry a
 20 firearm or will be authorized to have access to a firearm shall provide
 21 to such employer proof of [his or her] such retired police officer's
 22 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.
 LBD00608-01-5

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 1 approved by the commissioner and, if such firearms training course has
 2 not been completed within one year prior to such employment, satisfac-
 3 tory completion of an additional eight hour annual firearms in-service
 4 training course approved by the commissioner, such training course to be
 5 completed at least annually; [or]
 6 g. a peace officer as defined in subdivisions two, twenty and twenty-
 7 five and paragraphs a and b of subdivision twenty-one of section 2.10 of
 8 the criminal procedure law who has been retired from such employment for
 9 a period not to exceed ten years, provided, however, that a retired
 10 peace officer who has been retired from such employment for a period in
 11 excess of ten years shall be required to provide proof to [his or her]
 12 such retired peace officer's security guard employer of [his or her]
 13 their satisfactory completion of an eight hour annual in-service train-
 14 ing course approved by the municipal police training council, and
 15 provided further, however, that a retired peace officer who will be
 16 required by [his or her] such retired peace officer's security guard
 17 employer to carry a firear