New York Senate Bill S00430 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 430 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 4, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sens. THOMAS, COMRIE, HOYLMAN, KRUEGER, RAMOS -- 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 prohibiting the possession and use of live ammunition at a film production facility or a quali- fied film production facility The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 265.35 of the penal law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 4 to read as follows: 3 4. (a) Any person who possesses or uses live ammunition at a film 4 production facility or a qualified film production facility, as such 5 terms are defined in section twenty-four of the tax law, shall be guilty 6 of a class E felony. 7 (b) All persons employed or present at a film production facility or a 8 qualified film production facility, as such terms are defined in section 9 twenty-four of the tax law, shall receive proper training on the safe 10 use, handling, storage and transportation of firearms. 11 (c) The superintendent of police shall design and implement a firearm 12 safety training program that shall be completed by all persons employed 13 or present at a film production facility or a qualified film production 14 facility, if firearms shall be used or handled at such facility, prior 15 to such use and handling. 16 (d) For purposes of this section the term "firearm" shall include, 17 prop guns, rubber guns, plastic guns, non-guns, flintlock guns, pistols, 18 machine guns, rifles and shotguns that discharge blank cartridges or 19 ammunition. 20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01898-01-3