Bill Text: NY A03434 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 3434 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree; increases penalties for possession of a weapon on subways and mass transit trains.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to codes [A03434 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A03434-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3434

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 26, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. COOK, COLTON, SAYEGH, CRUZ, GRIFFIN, DAVILA --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to criminal possession  of  a
          weapon in the third degree

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

     1    Section 1. Section 265.02 of the penal law is amended by adding a  new
     2  subdivision 4 to read as follows:
     3    (4)  Such  person commits the crime of criminal possession of a weapon
     4  in the fourth degree as defined in  subdivision  one,  two  or  four  of
     5  section 265.01 of this article, when situated in a subway station, rail-
     6  road  station  or  terminal,  or bus station or terminal, or on a subway
     7  train, railroad train, or bus  operated  by  a  mass  transit  provider,
     8  public  or  private, and such person uses or attempts to use such weapon
     9  in the commission of another criminal act in such subway station,  rail-
    10  road  station or terminal, or bus station or terminal, or on such subway
    11  train, railroad train or bus; or
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    13  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07733-01-1