S1982 • 2025

Relates to the completion of training requirements for sheriffs and undersheriffs

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Pete Harckham
Last action: 2026-04-29
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Relates to the completion of training requirements for sheriffs and undersheriffs

Relates to the completion of training requirements for sheriffs and undersheriffs 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.

What This Bill Does

Relates to the completion of training requirements for sheriffs and undersheriffs 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 History

2026-04-29 Senate
PASSED SENATE
2026-04-29 Senate
DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
2026-04-29 Assembly
REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
2026-03-12 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2026-03-11 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2026-03-10 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.498
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT
2025-06-13 Senate
RECOMMITTED TO RULES
2025-06-11 Senate
RECALLED FROM ASSEMBLY
2025-06-11 Assembly
RETURNED TO SENATE
2025-06-11 Senate
VOTE RECONSIDERED - RESTORED TO THIRD READING
2025-06-11 Senate
AMENDED ON THIRD READING (T) 1982A
2025-06-10 Senate
PASSED SENATE
2025-06-10 Senate
DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
2025-06-10 Assembly
REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
2025-06-09 Senate
COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES
2025-06-09 Senate
ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1607
2025-01-14 Senate
REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Official Summary Text

Relates to the completion of training requirements for sheriffs and undersheriffs
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.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1982

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                    January 14, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. HARCKHAM, ASHBY, O'MARA, ROLISON, STEC, WEBB -- read
          twice  and  ordered  printed,  and when printed to be committed to the
          Committee on Local Government

        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