STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           101
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sens. KAMINSKY, BROOKS, HOYLMAN, MAYER -- 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 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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