STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1715
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 16, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. GRIFFIN, D'URSO -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Codes
        AN ACT to amend the penal  law,  in  relation  to  limiting  educational
          institutions ability to authorize the possession of a weapon on school
          grounds
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 265.01-a of the penal law, as added by chapter 1 of
     2  the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
     3  § 265.01-a[.] Criminal possession of a weapon on school grounds.
     4    A person is guilty of  criminal  possession  of  a  weapon  on  school
     5  grounds  when  he or she knowingly has in his or her possession a rifle,
     6  shotgun, or firearm in or upon a building or grounds,  used  for  educa-
     7  tional  purposes,  of  any  school,  college,  or university, except the
     8  forestry lands, wherever located, owned  and  maintained  by  the  State
     9  University of New York college of environmental science and forestry, or
    10  upon  a  school  bus  as defined in section one hundred forty-two of the
    11  vehicle and traffic law,  without  the  written  authorization  of  such
    12  educational  institution.    No educational institution shall issue such
    13  written authorization to any teacher, professor, administrator, or other
    14  person who is not primarily employed as a school resource  officer,  law
    15  enforcement  officer, or security guard as defined in subdivision six of
    16  section eighty-nine-f of the general business  law,  regardless  of  the
    17  person's  employment  directly  by  the  educational institution or by a
    18  third party that provides school resource officers or law enforcement or
    19  security services to the educational institution.
    20    Criminal possession of a weapon on school grounds is a class E felony.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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