STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7712 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE October 18, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. GRIFFO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to allowing certain judges, justices, and criminal prosecutors to carry a concealed firearm in court, where no magnetometer or security personnel is present The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraphs (n) and (o) of subdivision 3 of section 265.01-e 2 of the penal law, paragraph (n) as amended and paragraph (o) as added by 3 section 1 of part F of chapter 55 of the laws of 2023, are amended and a 4 new paragraph (p) is added to read as follows: 5 (n) persons while participating in military ceremonies, funerals, and 6 honor guards; [or] 7 (o) persons while lawfully engaging in learning, practicing, training 8 for, competing in, or travelling into or within the state to learn, 9 practice, train for, or compete in, the sport of biathlon, in accordance 10 with all applicable local, state, and federal laws, rules, and regu- 11 lations[.]; or 12 (p) a judge, justice, or criminal prosecutor who is duly licensed to 13 carry concealed firearms in their possession, acting in the scope of 14 their official duties, at a court facility, where such court facility is 15 not secured by one or more magnetometers, and no duly designated and 16 assigned security personnel is present. 17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD13264-01-3