NY A05844 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly

Status

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 38-3)
Status: Engrossed on April 28 2009 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2010-03-01 - amended on third reading 5844b
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

Summary

Establishes the "Children's Weapon Accident Prevention Act," Creates crimes related to the unsafe storage of, a weapon and criminally negligent storage of a weapon. Intent is to protect children, and others, from injury and death due to unauthorized access, discharge and use of weapons.

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Title

Enacts the "children's weapon accident prevention act"; creates crimes of failure to store a weapon safely in the first and second degrees, aggravated failure to store a weapon, and criminally negligent storage of a weapon in the first and second degrees; provides affirmative defenses; directs the commissioner of education to develop a weapons safety program.

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Roll Calls

2009-04-28 - Assembly - Assembly Floor Vote - Final Passage (Y: 95 N: 46 NV: 9 Abs: 0) [PASS]

History

DateChamberAction
2010-03-01 amended on third reading 5844b
2010-01-19 amended on third reading 5844a
2010-01-06 ordered to third reading cal.407
2010-01-06 RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
2010-01-06 DIED IN SENATE
2009-04-28 REFERRED TO CODES
2009-04-28 delivered to senate
2009-04-28 passed assembly
2009-04-09 advanced to third reading cal.333
2009-04-06 reported
2009-02-20 referred to codes

Same As/Similar To

S3098-A (Same As) 2010-03-19 - PRINT NUMBER 3098A

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