The way I plan on finding out if the Governor signed the bill is by checking
http://www.state.ny.us/governor/press/year05/press05.html#hdaily. I hope this works anyway. It doesn't help as far as finding out the status of the bill.
As far as all the BO stuff earlier in the thread, I agree with BO being common sense. But if everyone that is going to be in the woods this fall had the common sense as those do in this forum, the controversy over the rifle bill would be non-existent. Most of the controversy is over the capability of a rifle and what would happen if some moron was pissin' off 300+ yard shots at a running deer. Sometimes you have to help along the folks who don't pick up on things very quickly. As for the rifle bill, you just hope that the guys in the woods have enough common sense to use a rifle safely. They seem to have confidence that hunters will hunt safely based on other areas where rifle hunting is allowed.