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

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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-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5791

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 23, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CHANDLER-WATERMAN,  TAYLOR  -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT 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. For purposes of emergency response measures and  access  to
     2  emergency  funding, the term "mass shooting" shall mean a shooting inci-
     3  dent:
     4    1. involving one or more firearms as defined in section 265.00 of  the
     5  penal law; and
     6    2. during which four or more people, other than the perpetrator of the
     7  shooting or an accomplice of the perpetrator, 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.
                                                                   LBD10287-01-3