NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A6255
SPONSOR: Weprin
 
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the general business law, in relation to the definition
of the term "peace officer" as such term is used in provisions of law
relating to security guards
 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
To remove the reference to "part-time peace officer" in the Security
Guard act and allow for the ability to provide a training waiver to
peace officers whose training currently exceeds that of a security
guard.
 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1 amends subdivision 14 'of section 857f of the general business
law, as amended by chapter 634 of the laws of 1994 changing the defi-
nition of peace officer by removing the full-time employment require-
ment.
Section 2 sets an immediate effective date.
 
JUSTIFICATION:
Until 2009, there were different training requirements for part-time and
full-time peace officers, this change was justified by the fact that
part-time and full-time peace officers hold the same responsibilities
regardless of the hours they work, and therefore the training require-
ments should be the same for both part-time and full-time peace offi-
cers.
The Security Guard Act allows the Division of Criminal Justice Services
to issue a training waiver to a peace officer whose training exceeds the
training requirement for a security guard'. Under the current provision
of law, auxiliary police, who are part-time peace officers, would not
qualify for a waiver based on this definition. This bill would remove
the full.-time employment requirement within the definition of a peace
officer, which would qualify-auxiliary police for a waiver from training
requirements.
 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
05/07/18 referred to codes
 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
None.
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately.