Bill Text: NY A08084 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows certain judges, justices, and criminal prosecutors who are duly licensed to possess a concealed firearm, to carry such concealed firearm in court, where no magnetometer or security personnel is present.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to codes [A08084 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08084-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8084

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                   September 29, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BUTTENSCHON -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to allowing  certain  judges,
          justices,  and  criminal  prosecutors  to carry a concealed firearm in
          court, where no magnetometer or security personnel is present

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraphs (n) and (o) of subdivision 3 of section 265.01-e
     2  of the penal law, paragraph (n) as amended and paragraph (o) as added by
     3  section 1 of part F of chapter 55 of the laws of 2023, are amended and a
     4  new paragraph (p) is added to read as follows:
     5    (n)  persons while participating in military ceremonies, funerals, and
     6  honor guards; [or]
     7    (o) persons while lawfully engaging in learning, practicing,  training
     8  for,  competing  in,  or  travelling  into or within the state to learn,
     9  practice, train for, or compete in, the sport of biathlon, in accordance
    10  with all applicable local, state, and federal  laws,  rules,  and  regu-
    11  lations[.]; or
    12    (p)  a  judge, justice, or criminal prosecutor who is duly licensed to
    13  carry concealed firearms in their possession, acting  in  the  scope  of
    14  their official duties, at a court facility, where such court facility is
    15  not  secured  by  one  or more magnetometers, and no duly designated and
    16  assigned security personnel is present.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13264-01-3