Bill Text: NY A05791 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Defines the term "mass shooting" for purposes of access to emergency funding as a shooting incident involving one or more firearms, rifles or shotguns during which four or more people, other than the individual or individuals alleged to have committed such incident, were injured or killed.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 45-2)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-09 - substituted by s6238a [A05791 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05791-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5791--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. CHANDLER-WATERMAN, TAYLOR, ZEBROWSKI, EACHUS,
          SHIMSKY, BURDICK, SIMON, TAPIA, CLARK, CUNNINGHAM, FAHY, GLICK, GONZA-
          LEZ-ROJAS, BORES, VANEL, MEEKS, HEVESI, ARDILA, LAVINE, DE LOS SANTOS,
          EPSTEIN, GIBBS, LUCAS, SIMONE, BUTTENSCHON, PAULIN,  SAYEGH,  BRONSON,
          LEVENBERG,  MAMDANI, SOLAGES, PRETLOW, ANDERSON, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, RA
          -- 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  executive law, in relation to defining the term
          "mass shooting" for purposes of emergency response measures and access
          to emergency funding

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

     1    Section  1.    Section 835 of the executive law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 11 to read as follows:
     3    11. "Mass shooting" means, for the purposes of any funding received or
     4  expended pursuant to this article, a shooting incident involving one  or
     5  more  firearms,  rifles  or  shotguns  during which four or more people,
     6  other than the individual or individuals alleged to have committed  such
     7  incident, were injured or killed.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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