Bill Text: NY S00101 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Limits an educational institution's ability to authorize the possession of a weapon on school grounds to certain officers or agents of a law enforcement agency.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 21-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-07-31 - SIGNED CHAP.138 [S00101 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S00101-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 101--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 9, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. KAMINSKY, ADDABBO, BRESLIN, BROOKS, GAUGHRAN, GOUNARDES, HOYLMAN, KAVANAGH, KRUEGER, MAY, MAYER, METZGER, MONTGOM- ERY, RAMOS, SERRANO, STAVISKY, THOMAS -- read twice and ordered print- ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to limiting educational institutions ability to authorize the possession of a weapon on school grounds 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 the State 9 University of New York college of environmental science and forestry, or 10 upon a school bus as defined in section one hundred forty-two of the 11 vehicle and traffic law, without the written authorization of such 12 educational institution; provided, however no school, as defined in 13 subdivision ten of section eleven hundred twenty-five of the education 14 law, shall issue such written authorization to any teacher, school 15 administrator, or other person employed at the school who is not prima- 16 rily employed as a school resource officer, police officer, peace offi- 17 cer, or security guard who has been issued a special armed guard regis- 18 tration card as defined in section eighty-nine-f of the general business EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03454-06-9S. 101--A 2 1 law, regardless of whether the person is employed directly by such 2 school or by a third party. 3 Criminal possession of a weapon on school grounds is a class E felony. 4 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same 5 manner as chapter 363 of the laws of 2018, takes effect.