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A6928Assembly2017-2018 SessionSame asS5862

Make Ossining Court Officers Peace Officers

Official title

“Designates uniformed court officers in the town of Ossining, county of Westchester as peace officers”

Sponsor Sandy GalefAD-95Affects Legal
Status
Vetoed
Impact
3/10
Low
Outcome
Vetoed

Bill progress

Vetoed

What's happening

This bill designates uniformed court officers in the town of Ossining as peace officers, with firearm possession requiring a proper license.

Why it matters

  1. Expands law enforcement authority locally. By designating uniformed court officers in Ossining as peace officers, the bill gives them specific legal powers (like making arrests or issuing summonses) which could improve court security and public safety in the town.

  2. Adds new responsibilities and risks for court officers. With peace officer status, these employees may face more potentially dangerous situations and greater legal accountability, which may impact their training, oversight, and job expectations.

  3. Firearm control is maintained. The bill explicitly requires that court officers must obtain a firearm license under existing state law before carrying, possessing, or disposing of a firearm, ensuring continued oversight and regulation of weapon possession despite expanded authority.

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Who cares

  • Ossining uniformed court officers

    The bill would designate town employees serving as uniformed officers in Ossining town courts as peace officers.

  • Town of Ossining officials

    The designation would apply specifically to the town’s employees serving as uniformed court officers, not town employees generally.

  • Ossining court officers seeking to carry firearms

    The bill would not authorize them to carry, possess, repair or dispose of a firearm without the appropriate license under Penal Law section 400.00.

Headline styles

Make Ossining Court Officers Peace Officers

Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.

Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Sandy Galef

Assembly Member · Assembly District 95

No co-sponsors yet.

History

  1. Tabled
  2. Vetoed memo.332
  3. Delivered to governor
  4. Returned to assembly
  5. Passed senateVote 55–7
  6. 3rd reading cal.1840
  7. Substituted for S5862A
  8. Referred to codes
  9. Delivered to senate
  10. Passed assembly
  11. Ordered to third reading cal.483
  12. Returned to assembly
Show 11 earlier actions
  1. Died in senate
  2. Referred to rules
  3. Delivered to senate
  4. Passed assembly
  5. Ordered to third reading rules cal.596
  6. Rules report cal.596
  7. Reported
  8. Reported referred to rules
  9. Print number 6928a
  10. Amend (t) and recommit to codes
  11. Referred to codes

Companion bill

The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.

S5862Senate

Make Court Officers Peace Officers

Senate Floor Calendar · Sponsor David Carlucci

Impact 3 · Low0% to pass

Full text

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STATE OF NEW YORK

6928--A

2017-2018 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

March 24, 2017

Introduced by M. of A. GALEF -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to designating uniformed court officers in the town of Ossining, county of Westchester as peace officers

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

Section 1. Section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law is amended by adding a new subdivision 84 to read as follows:

84. Employees of the town of Ossining serving as uniformed court officers in the courts of the town of Ossining; provided, however, that nothing in this subdivision shall be deemed to authorize such employees to carry, possess, repair or dispose of a firearm unless the appropriate license therefore has been issued pursuant to section 400.00 of the penal law.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

LBD10457-02-7

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