Bill Text: NY A07921 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to possession of firearms on property owned by or held in trust for SUNY ESF.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-10-04 - SIGNED CHAP.354 [A07921 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A07921-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7921 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 28, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. MAGNARELLI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to possession of firearms on property owned by or held in trust for SUNY ESF The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 265.01-a of the penal law, as added by chapter 1 of 2 the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 265.01-a[.] Criminal possession of a weapon on school grounds. 4 A person is guilty of criminal possession of a weapon on school 5 grounds when he or she knowingly has in his or her possession a rifle, 6 shotgun, or firearm in or upon a building or grounds, used for educa- 7 tional purposes, of any school, college, or university, except the 8 forestry lands, wherever located, owned [and], maintained [by] or held 9 in trust for the benefit of the New York State College of Forestry at 10 Syracuse University, now known as the State University of New York 11 college of environmental science and forestry, or upon a school bus as 12 defined in section one hundred forty-two of the vehicle and traffic law, 13 without the written authorization of such educational institution. 14 Criminal possession of a weapon on school grounds is a class E felony. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 16 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11964-01-9