Bill Text: NY S00430 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the possession and use of live ammunition at a film production facility or a qualified film production facility; requires all persons employed or present at a film production facility or a qualified film production facility to receive proper training on the safe use, handling, storage and transportation of firearms.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CODES [S00430 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00430-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  THOMAS,  COMRIE,  HOYLMAN, KRUEGER, RAMOS -- read
          twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
          Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to prohibiting the possession
          and  use  of live ammunition at a film production facility or a quali-
          fied film production facility

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

     1    Section  1. Section 265.35 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 4 to read as follows:
     3    4. (a) Any person who possesses or uses  live  ammunition  at  a  film
     4  production  facility  or  a  qualified film production facility, as such
     5  terms are defined in section twenty-four of the tax law, shall be guilty
     6  of a class E felony.
     7    (b) All persons employed or present at a film production facility or a
     8  qualified film production facility, as such terms are defined in section
     9  twenty-four of the tax law, shall receive proper training  on  the  safe
    10  use, handling, storage and transportation of firearms.
    11    (c)  The superintendent of police shall design and implement a firearm
    12  safety training program that shall be completed by all persons  employed
    13  or  present at a film production facility or a qualified film production
    14  facility, if firearms shall be used or handled at such  facility,  prior
    15  to such use and handling.
    16    (d)  For  purposes  of  this section the term "firearm" shall include,
    17  prop guns, rubber guns, plastic guns, non-guns, flintlock guns, pistols,
    18  machine guns, rifles and shotguns that  discharge  blank  cartridges  or
    19  ammunition.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01898-01-3