Bill Text: NY A04134 | 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 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to codes [A04134 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04134-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4134

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 9, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. SIMPSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee 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