Bill Text: NY S03040 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Exempts any land located in the state forest preserve in the Adirondack and Catskill parks from certain provisions of law relating to prohibiting firearms in public parks.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CODES [S03040 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03040-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3040

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 27, 2023
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        Introduced by Sens. STEC, BORRELLO, HELMING, PALUMBO, WEIK -- 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 exempting any land located
          in the state forest preserve in the Adirondack and Catskill parks from
          certain  provisions  of law relating to prohibiting firearms in public
          parks

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph (d) of subdivision 2 of section 265.01-e of the
     2  penal law, as added by chapter 371 of the laws of 2022,  is  amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (d)  libraries,  public  playgrounds,  public  parks, except any state
     5  forest preserve land located in the Adirondack and Catskill  parks,  and
     6  zoos;
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08057-01-3