STATE OF NEW YORK
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                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 9, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  COONEY -- 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 certain  persons  engaging
          in  certain firearm safety shooting instruction or persons engaging in
          wildlife control or management

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraphs (i) and (j) of subdivision 3 of section 265.01-e
     2  of  the  penal  law,  as  added  by chapter 371 of the laws of 2022, are
     3  amended and two new paragraphs (k) and (l) are added to read as follows:
     4    (i) persons lawfully engaged in  hunting  activity,  including  hunter
     5  education training; [or]
     6    (j)  persons  operating a program in a sensitive location out of their
     7  residence, as defined by this section,  which  is  licensed,  certified,
     8  authorized,  or  funded  by the state or a municipality, so long as such
     9  possession is in compliance with any rules or regulations applicable  to
    10  the operation of such program and use or storage of firearms[.];
    11    (k)  persons engaging in firearm safety shooting instruction conducted
    12  at a  camp regulated by article thirteen-B or  fourteen  of  the  public
    13  health  law  or  operating  pursuant  to a temporary residence permit as
    14  required by paragraph (o) of subdivision five  of  section  two  hundred
    15  twenty-five  of the public health law and any regulations promulgated by
    16  the commissioner of health, at an approved shooting range, provided that
    17  such instruction is under the direction of a certified shooting instruc-
    18  tor as approved by a local or county health department; or
    19    (l) authorized persons engaged in wildlife control or management at  a
    20  sensitive  location  when  a  firearm  is required to manage wildlife as
    21  authorized by the department of environmental  conservation,  department
    22  of health or other law enforcement agency.
    23    § 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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