New York Senate Bill S04704 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4704 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 13, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SANDERS, MAY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to motorcycle profiling 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 839-a 2 to read as follows: 3 § 839-a. Motorcycle profiling. 1. The municipal police training coun- 4 cil shall ensure that issues related to motorcycle profiling are 5 addressed in basic law enforcement training and offered to in-service 6 law enforcement officers in conjunction with existing training regarding 7 profiling. 8 2. Local law enforcement agencies shall add a statement condemning 9 motorcycle profiling to existing policies regarding profiling. 10 3. For the purposes of this section, "motorcycle profiling" means the 11 illegal use of the fact that a person rides a motorcycle or wears motor- 12 cycle-related paraphernalia as a factor in deciding to stop and ques- 13 tion, take enforcement action, arrest, or search a person or vehicle 14 with or without a legal basis under the United States constitution or 15 New York state constitution. 16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 17 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or 18 repeal of any rules or regulations necessary for the implementation of 19 the foregoing provisions of this act on its effective date are author- 20 ized to be made and completed on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09535-01-3