STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4134 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 9, 2023 ___________ 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