STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2423

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 16, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. EPSTEIN, ZINERMAN, MEEKS, ANDERSON, GONZALEZ-RO-
          JAS, SIMON, SEAWRIGHT, JACKSON, LEVENBERG -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Local Governments

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in  relation  to  prohibiting  police
          officers  from  carrying  or  using  a firearm during any phase of the
          officer's  official  duties  unless  the  officer  has  satisfactorily
          completed a course of training that meets or exceeds the minimum stan-
          dards established by the municipal police training council

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

     1    Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section  840-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  840-a.  Municipal  police; firearm use. No municipality shall allow
     4  any police officer it employs to carry or use a firearm during any phase
     5  of the officer's official duties, which constitutes on-duty  employment,
     6  unless  the  officer  has  satisfactorily completed a course of training
     7  that meets or exceeds the minimum standards established by the municipal
     8  police training  council  in  the  use  of  deadly  physical  force  and
     9  firearms,  and  annually receives instruction in the use of deadly phys-
    10  ical force and firearms that meets  or  exceeds  the  minimum  standards
    11  established  by  the municipal police training council. All employers of
    12  police officers shall conduct, or provide through another  organization,
    13  such  training  required  by  this  section with sufficient frequency to
    14  ensure there is no impact on a police officer's on-duty  employment  due
    15  to lack of available training. A police officer shall not be transferred
    16  from  such  police officer's precinct, command, assignment, post, squad,
    17  or tour of duty as a result of such employer's failure  to  provide  the
    18  training required under this section. In addition, such employer's fail-
    19  ure to provide the training required under this section shall not impair
    20  a police officer's ability to carry a firearm while off-duty.
    21    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    22  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04323-01-5