New York A 1953: Restores the legislative checks and balances to any emergency declaration that exceeds 45 days and ensures judicial due process rights for any action that impairs fundamental constitutional rights

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A01953 Summary:

BILL NOA01953 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORRosenthal (MS)

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COSPNSRSimon, Seawright, De Los Santos

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MLTSPNSRCook, Hyndman

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Amd §400.00, Pen L

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Restricts the locations of gunsmiths and dealers in firearms in relation to child day care or educational facilities, and places of worship.

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BILL NOA01953 

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01/14/2025referred to codes

01/07/2026referred to codes

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1953

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 14, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, SIMON, SEAWRIGHT, DE LOS SANTOS --
 Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK, HYNDMAN -- read once and referred
 to the Committee on Codes

 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to restricting the locations
 of gunsmiths and dealers in firearms in relation to day cares, educa-
 tional facilities, and places of worship

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

 1 Section 1. Section 400.00 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
 2 subdivision 21 to read as follows:
 3 21. No license shall be granted for any gunsmith or dealer in firearms
 4 to operate:
 5 (a) on the same street or avenue and within five hundred feet of a
 6 building occupied as a child day care or educational facility, or exclu-
 7 sively occupied as a place of worship; or
 8 (b) in a city, town or village having a population of twenty thousand
 9 or more within five hundred feet of three or more existing gunsmiths or
 10 dealers in firearms licensed and operating pursuant to this section; and
 11 (c) the measurements in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this subdivision are
 12 to be taken in straight lines from the center of the nearest entrance of
 13 the premises sought to be licensed to the center of the nearest entrance
 14 of such child day care or educational facility, or other place of
 15 worship or to the center of the nearest entrance of each such premises
 16 of existing gunsmiths or dealers in firearms licensed and operating
 17 pursuant to this section; except, however, that no license shall be
 18 denied to any premises at which a license under this chapter has been in
 19 existence continuously from a date prior to the date when a building on
 20 the same street or avenue and within five hundred feet of said premises
 21 has been occupied as a child day care or educational facility, or exclu-
 22 sively occupied as a place of worship; and except that no license shall
 23 be denied to any premises, which is within five hundred feet of three or

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05252-01-5

 A. 1953 2

 1 more existing gunsmiths or dealers in firearms licensed and operating
 2 pursuant to this section, at which a license under this chapter has been
 3 in existence continuously on or prior to November first, two thousand
 4 twenty-five.
 5 (d) Within the context of this subdivision, the word "entrance" shall
 6 mean a door regularly used to give ingress to a child day care or educa-
 7 tional facility, a house of worship, premises licensed and operating
 8 pursuant to this section by a gunsmith or dealer in firearms or of the
 9 premises sought to be licensed. Where a child day care or educational
 10 facility, a house of worship, or premises licensed and operating pursu-
 11 ant to this section by a gunsmith or dealer in firearms or the premises
 12 sought to be licensed is set back from a public thoroughfare, the walk-
 13 way or stairs leading to any such door shall be deemed an entrance and
 14 the measurement shall be taken to the center of the walkway or stairs at
 15 the point where it meets the building line or public thoroughfare. A
 16 door which has no exterior hardware, or which is used solely as an emer-
 17 gency or fire exit, or for maintenance purposes, or which leads directly
 18 to a part of a building not regularly used by the general public or
 19 patrons, is not deemed an "entrance".
 20 (e) Within the context of this subdivis