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Senate Bill S285

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Allows rifles, shotguns, and firearms on college and university campuses

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2019-S285 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §265.01-a, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S1754
2021-2022: S3651
2023-2024: S1407
2025-2026: S2731

2019-S285 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows rifles, shotguns, and firearms on college and university campuses.

2019-S285 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S285 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    285
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 9, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  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 allowing rifles, shotguns,
   and firearms on college and university campuses

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 265.01-a of the penal law, as added by chapter 1 of
 the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
 § 265.01-a[.] Criminal possession of a weapon on school grounds.
   A  person  is  guilty  of  criminal  possession  of a weapon on school
 grounds when he or she knowingly has in his or her possession  a  rifle,
 shotgun,  or  firearm  in or upon a building or grounds, used for educa-
 tional purposes, of any school[,  college,  or  university,  except  the
 forestry  lands,  wherever  located,  owned  and maintained by the State
 University of New York college of environmental science  and  forestry,]
 or  upon a school bus as defined in section one hundred forty-two of the
 vehicle and traffic law,  without  the  written  authorization  of  such
 educational  institution.  THIS  SECTION  SHALL  NOT APPLY TO COLLEGE OR
 UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS OR GROUNDS.
   Criminal possession of a weapon on school grounds is a class E felony.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02492-01-9

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