Bill Text: NY A00340 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to the definition of serious offense and felony offenses against animals for purposes of possession of a firearm.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to codes [A00340 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00340-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           340

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 6, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the definition of  serious
          offense for purposes of possession of a firearm

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 17 of  section  265.00  of  the  penal  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows:
     3    (d)  an  offense  which  would  constitute a felony offense against an
     4  animal pursuant  to  section  three  hundred  fifty-one,  three  hundred
     5  fifty-three-a,  three  hundred  sixty, or three hundred sixty-one of the
     6  agriculture and markets law or section 242.15 of this part.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
     8  have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00768-01-3
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