Bill Text: NY A08569 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Defines the term "mass shooting" for purposes of emergency response measures and access to emergency funding as a shooting incident in which at least four people are murdered with a firearm, rifle, or shotgun.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-29 - substituted by s8044 [A08569 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08569-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8569

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 11, 2024
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. CHANDLER-WATERMAN -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Codes

        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. Subdivision 11 of section 835  of  the  executive  law,  as
     2  added by a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the executive law relat-
     3  ing  to  defining  the  term  "mass  shooting" for purposes of emergency
     4  response measures and access to emergency funding, as proposed in legis-
     5  lative bills numbers S. 6238-A and A. 5791-A,  is  amended  to  read  as
     6  follows:
     7    11.  "Mass  shooting" means[, for the purposes of any funding received
     8  or expended pursuant to this article, a shooting] an incident [involving
     9  one or more firearms, rifles or shotguns during] in which at least  four
    10  [or  more]  people[, other than the individual or individuals alleged to
    11  have committed such incident, were injured or killed] are murdered  with
    12  a firearm, rifle, or shotgun.
    13    § 2. Subdivision 19 of section 623 of the executive law, as amended by
    14  chapter 291 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
    15    19.  To  accept,  with  the  approval of the governor, as agent of the
    16  state, any grant including, but not  limited  to  any  periodic  federal
    17  grants  which support the purposes of this article and any federal emer-
    18  gency assistance grants to supplement the office's  available  resources
    19  when  responding  to  mass shootings as defined in subdivision eleven of
    20  section eight hundred thirty-five of this chapter or any other  incident
    21  of  terrorism  or mass violence, any fines or penalties imposed pursuant
    22  to section three hundred forty-one or three hundred forty-two-a  of  the
    23  general  business law and made payable to the office pursuant to section
    24  three hundred forty-seven-a of such law, or any gift for the purposes of
    25  this article. Any monies so received may be expended by  the  office  to
    26  effectuate  any  purpose  of  this  article,  subject  to the applicable
    27  provisions of the state finance law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    § 3. Subparagraphs (iv) and (v) of paragraph (b) of subdivision  2  of
     2  section 631-a of the executive law, as amended by section 27 of part A-1
     3  of  chapter  56 of the laws of 2010, are amended  and a new subparagraph
     4  (vi) is added to read as follows:
     5    (iv) transportation and household assistance; [and]
     6    (v)  outreach  to  the  community  and  education  and training of law
     7  enforcement and other criminal justice officials to the needs  of  crime
     8  victims[.]; and
     9    (vi)  services to victims of a mass shooting as defined in subdivision
    10  eleven of section eight hundred thirty-five of  this  chapter  or  of  a
    11  shooting incident in which four or more people are injured.
    12    §  4.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    13  manner as a chapter of the laws  of  2023  amending  the  executive  law
    14  relating  to defining the term "mass shooting" for purposes of emergency
    15  response measures and access to emergency funding, as proposed in legis-
    16  lative bills numbers S. 6238-A and A. 5791-A, takes effect.