S518 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
Requires the inclusion of cultural competency training in the basic training and pre-employment course curricula for state police officers and municipal police officers and sheriffs, members of fire departments and companies, corrections officers, first responders, emergency medical technicians and advanced emergency medical technicians.
- Title
- Requires the inclusion of cultural competency training in the basic training and pre-employment course curricula for police, firefighters, correction officers and first responders
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- In Assembly Committee
- Latest action date
- 2026-02-03
- In committee
- Governmental Operations
- Introduced
- 2025-01-02
- Active version
- S518C
- Same as
- A5501
- Law section
- Executive Law
Sponsors
- Roxanne J. Persaud State Senator, District 19
Co-sponsors
- Cordell Cleare State Senator, District 30
Heard in committee
- Governmental Operations NY State Assembly committee
- Finance NY State Senate committee
Committee meetings
Committee meetings that took this bill up, from the Senate's published agendas. The Assembly does not publish its committee agendas in machine-readable form, so an Assembly committee's consideration of a bill is not on this list.
- Finance, 2026-01-20 First reading
- Finance, 2025-01-21 First reading