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- Signed chap.269
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to senate
- Passed assembly
- Ordered to third reading cal.513
- Substituted for A8214B
- Referred to codes
- Returned to assembly
- Repassed senate
- Amended on third reading 3199b
- Vote reconsidered - restored to third reading
- Returned to senate
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- Recalled from assembly
- Referred to codes
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 54–5
- Amended on third reading (t) 3199a
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.429
- Referred to codes
- Returned to senate
- Died in assembly
- Referred to codes
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 57–5
- Ordered to third reading cal.1159
- Committee discharged and committed to rules
- Referred to codes
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Includes the possession of a machete within the class A misdemeanor of criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree
Assembly Floor Calendar · Sponsor David Weprin
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Title of bill
An act to amend the penal law, in relation to machetes
Summary of provisions
Section 1 of the bill amends section 265.01(2) of the penal law related to criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree to include machetes within the list of items that when used with intent unlawfully against another person, shall be a criminal offense.
Section 2 of the bill states that the Act shall take effect immediately.
Justification
Machetes have often been used as weapons and are actually defined as such in Webster's dictionary - "Machete - a large heavy knife used for cutting sugarcane and underbrush and as a weapon".
This legislation makes the necessary correction to the penal law so that perpetrators who use a machete as a weapon will be charged accordingly.
Legislative history
Passed Senate in 2015
Fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately.
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