New York Senate Bill S06075 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6075 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE March 5, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. PARKER, HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing a duty to report an unauthorized use of force by a police officer 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 837-y 2 to read as follows: 3 § 837-y. Duty to report unauthorized use of force. 1. For the purposes 4 of this section: 5 (a) "police officer" means a person designated as such in subdivision 6 thirty-four of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law; and 7 (b) "use of force" means any action defined in subdivision one of 8 section eight hundred thirty-seven-t of this article. 9 2. Every police officer shall be required to intervene and report when 10 such officer witnesses the unauthorized use of force by another police 11 officer. Whenever such officer is required to report under this section, 12 they shall immediately notify their police agency. Such agency shall 13 then investigate such report. 14 3. Any police officer who fails to intervene and report in violation 15 of this section shall be guilty of a class B misdemeanor. 16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD10626-01-5