STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4760

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 6, 2025
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        Introduced  by M. of A. CHANDLER-WATERMAN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
          A. TAYLOR -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in  relation  to  defining  the  term
          "mass shooting" for purposes of emergency response measures and access
          to emergency funding

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 11 of section 835  of  the  executive  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  69  of  the  laws  of  2024, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    11. "Mass shooting" means an incident in which at  least  four  people
     5  are murdered or injured with a firearm, rifle, or shotgun.
     6    §  2.  Subparagraph  (vi) of paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section
     7  631-a of the executive law, as added by chapter 69 of the laws of  2024,
     8  is amended to read as follows:
     9    (vi)  services to victims of a mass shooting as defined in subdivision
    10  eleven of section eight hundred thirty-five of this  chapter  [or  of  a
    11  shooting incident in which four or more people are injured].
    12    § 3. 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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