Bill Text: NY S06433 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 6433 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Increase the minimum distance a firearm may be in the vicinity of school grounds to 1,000 feet.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-09 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S06433 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S06433-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6433
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 9, 2012
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       Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
       AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law and the penal law, in
         relation to the minimum distance a firearm may be in the  vicinity  of
         school grounds
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1.  Subparagraph 2 of paragraph a of subdivision 4 of  section
    2  11-0931 of the environmental conservation law, as amended by chapter 483
    3  of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
    4    (2)  discharge  a  firearm, crossbow or long bow within [five hundred]
    5  ONE THOUSAND feet from a dwelling house, farm building or farm structure
    6  actually occupied or used, school building, school playground, or  occu-
    7  pied factory or church;
    8    S 2. Subparagraph 2 of paragraph a of subdivision 4 of section 11-0931
    9  of the environmental conservation law is amended to read as follows:
   10    (2) discharge a firearm or long bow within [five hundred] ONE THOUSAND
   11  feet  from  a  dwelling  house, farm building or farm structure actually
   12  occupied or used, school building, school playground, or occupied facto-
   13  ry or church;
   14    S 3. Section 10.00 of the penal law is amended by adding a new  subdi-
   15  vision 21 to read as follows:
   16    21. "SCHOOL GROUNDS" MEANS (A) IN OR ON OR WITHIN ANY BUILDING, STRUC-
   17  TURE,  ATHLETIC  PLAYING  FIELD, PLAYGROUND OR LAND CONTAINED WITHIN THE
   18  REAL PROPERTY BOUNDARY LINE OF A PUBLIC OR PRIVATE ELEMENTARY,  PAROCHI-
   19  AL,  INTERMEDIATE,  JUNIOR  HIGH, VOCATIONAL, OR HIGH SCHOOL, OR (B) ANY
   20  AREA ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC LOCATED WITHIN ONE THOUSAND  FEET  OF  THE
   21  REAL  PROPERTY  BOUNDARY  LINE  COMPRISING ANY SUCH SCHOOL OR ANY PARKED
   22  AUTOMOBILE OR OTHER PARKED VEHICLE LOCATED WITHIN ONE THOUSAND  FEET  OF
   23  THE  REAL  PROPERTY  BOUNDARY  LINE  COMPRISING ANY SUCH SCHOOL. FOR THE
   24  PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION AN "AREA ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC"  SHALL  MEAN
   25  SIDEWALKS, STREETS, PARKING LOTS, PARKS, PLAYGROUNDS, STORES AND RESTAU-
   26  RANTS.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1    S  4.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    2  have become a law; provided, however, that the  amendments  to  subpara-
    3  graph  2 of paragraph a of subdivision 4 of section 11-0931 of the envi-
    4  ronmental conservation law made by section one  of  this  act  shall  be
    5  subject  to the expiration and reversion of such subdivision pursuant to
    6  chapter 483 of the laws of 2010, as amended, when  upon  such  date  the
    7  provisions of section two of this act shall take effect.