Provides for the indefinite suspension of New York city police officers without pay pending the disposition of charges of incompetence or misconduct resulting in death or serious physical injury as defined in section 10.00 of the penal law.
Provides for the indefinite suspension of New York city police officers without pay pending the disposition of charges of incompetence or misconduct resulting in death or serious physical injury as defined in section 10.00 of the penal law.
Provides that the maximum age requirement of 35 years for police officers to take a competitive examination shall not apply to any police officer of any county, city, town or village police force not otherwise provided for in this section if such officer is a part-time police officer in a non-competitive position and is vested in the New York state and local police and fire retirement system.
Provides that the maximum age requirement of 35 years for police officers to take a competitive examination shall not apply to any police officer of any county, city, town or village police force not otherwise provided for in this section if such officer is a part-time police officer in a non-competitive position and is vested in the New York state and local police and fire retirement system.
Enhances the ability of the department of health to investigate, discipline, and monitor licensed physicians, physician assistants, and specialist assistants.
Enacts the "Wandering Officers Act" prohibiting provisional or permanent appointment of a person as a police officer if such person has previously been fired as a police officer from any jurisdiction within or without the state, if such person left a position as a police officer either while under an investigation or while being the subject of a disciplinary action which could result in termination from any jurisdiction within or without the state, or if such person resigned while criminal charges were pending stemming from actions committed while on duty as a police officer in any jurisdiction within or without the state.
Strengthens protections for patients regarding sexual misconduct by medical providers; requires medical expert consultants involved in investigations disclose conflicts of interest and to not be under investigation, on warning, or on probation; requires a zero-tolerance policy to be adopted and training to be provided on sexual misconduct by the board for professional misconduct; includes provisions related to the right to have a chaperone; includes sexual misconduct in the definition of professional misconduct.
Provides earnings limitations for retired police officers employed part-time by municipalities with a population of less than 7,500; permits such officer to work up to five hundred twenty hours in any consecutive six-month period, with no suspension or diminution of retirement allowance; establishes villages or towns shall report such hours and salary earned on a monthly basis and shall contribute a percentage of the officer's excess earnings to the New York state and local police and fire retirement system.
Relating to the disciplinary suspension of police officers in certain municipalities.
Provides that where an active or retired police officer dies by suicide and is enrolled in a health insurance plan, the surviving dependents of such police officer shall be entitled to such health insurance coverage for ninety days following such police officer's death.