STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6245--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      March 1, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. LENTOL, PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on  Codes  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  criminal procedure law, in relation to granting
          certain court reporters peace officer status
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  21 of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure
     2  law is amended by adding a new paragraph g to read as follows:
     3    g. Court reporters in the  first  and  second  departments,  provided,
     4  however,  that  nothing  in  this paragraph shall be deemed to authorize
     5  such employees to carry, possess, repair or dispose of a firearm  unless
     6  the  appropriate  license  therefor  has been issued pursuant to section
     7  400.00 of the penal law.
     8    § 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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