Bill Text: NY S06238 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Defines the term "mass shooting" for purposes of access to emergency funding as a shooting incident involving one or more firearms, rifles or shotguns during which four or more people, other than the individual or individuals alleged to have committed such incident, were injured or killed.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-12-08 - APPROVAL MEMO.51 [S06238 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06238-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6238--A
            Cal. No. 870

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      April 5, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. MYRIE, BROUK, CLEARE, MAY, SALAZAR -- read twice and
          ordered  printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
          Codes -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first  and
          second report, ordered to a third reading, passed by Senate and deliv-
          ered  to  the Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to third
          reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining  its  place  in  the
          order of third reading

        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.    Section 835 of the executive law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 11 to read as follows:
     3    11. "Mass shooting" means, for the purposes of any funding received or
     4  expended pursuant to this article, a shooting incident involving one  or
     5  more  firearms,  rifles  or  shotguns  during which four or more people,
     6  other than the individual or individuals alleged to have committed  such
     7  incident, were injured or killed.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10287-04-3
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