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S00062 Summary:

BILL NOS00062 

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SAME ASSAME AS A04528

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SPONSORGALLIVAN

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COSPNSRBORRELLO, HELMING, OBERACKER, RHOADS

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §3.07, Pks & Rec L

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Requires the commissioner of parks, recreation and historic preservation to provide for the health, safety and welfare of the public using facilities under its jurisdiction, which shall include ensuring a minimum staff of three hundred eighty-five permanently appointed, full time regional state park police officers at state parks, beaches, campgrounds, historic sites and concert venues; makes related provisions.

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BILL NOS00062 

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO CULTURAL AFFAIRS, TOURISM, PARKS AND RECREATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CULTURAL AFFAIRS, TOURISM, PARKS AND RECREATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 62

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
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 Introduced by Sens. GALLIVAN, BORRELLO, HELMING, OBERACKER, RHOADS --
 read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
 the Committee on Cultural Affairs, Tourism, Parks and Recreation

 AN ACT to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law, in
 relation to police staffing at certain parks

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 3.07 of the parks, recreation and historic preser-
 2 vation law is amended by adding three new subdivisions 3, 4 and 5 to
 3 read as follows:
 4 3. The commissioner shall provide for the health, safety and welfare
 5 of the public using facilities under its jurisdiction, which shall
 6 include ensuring a minimum staff of three hundred eighty-five permanent-
 7 ly appointed, full time regional state park police officers at state
 8 parks, beaches, campgrounds, historic sites and concert venues. The
 9 number of regional state park police officers deployed to each region
 10 shall be equivalent to the percentage of each region's five year attend-
 11 ance average.
 12 4. The commissioner shall not open a new state park, beach, camp-
 13 ground, historic site or concert venue unless such commissioner submits
 14 a staffing plan to the legislature that demonstrates there is a suffi-
 15 cient number of regional state park police to provide adequate and
 16 appropriate delivery of police services to patrons visiting the new
 17 site.
 18 5. The commissioner may redeploy regional state park police officers
 19 outside of their assigned region in the case of an emergency. Emergen-
 20 cies are defined as natural disasters, declared emergencies and mass
 21 casualty incidents.
 22 § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
 23 law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00383-01-5

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