Bill Text: NY A04729 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 4729

Introduced

Bill Title: Permits courts to remand a principal to the custody of the sheriff for felony offenses involving the possession of firearms and weapons.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to codes [A04729 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04729-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4729

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 23, 2023
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to the authority
          to  remand  a principal charged with certain felony offenses involving
          the possession of firearms or weapons

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (u)  of subdivision 4 of section 510.10 of the
     2  criminal procedure law, as added by section 2 of subpart B of part UU of
     3  chapter 56 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (u) any felony offense involving criminal possession of a  firearm  or
     5  criminal  possession  of  a  weapon  in  [the third degree as defined in
     6  subdivision three of section 265.02] violation of  article  two  hundred
     7  sixty-five of the penal law [or criminal sale of a firearm to a minor as
     8  defined in section 265.16 of the penal law].
     9    §  2.  Subparagraph (xxi) of paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section
    10  530.20 of the criminal procedure law, as added by section 4 of subpart C
    11  of part UU of chapter 56 of the laws of 2022,  is  amended  to  read  as
    12  follows:
    13    (xxi) any felony offense involving criminal possession of a firearm or
    14  criminal  possession  of  a  weapon  in  [the third degree as defined in
    15  subdivision three of section 265.02] violation of  article  two  hundred
    16  sixty-five of the penal law [or criminal sale of a firearm to a minor as
    17  defined in section 265.16 of the penal law].
    18    §  3. Paragraph (u) of subdivision 4 of section 530.40 of the criminal
    19  procedure law, as added by section 4 of subpart B of part UU of  chapter
    20  56 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
    21    (u)  any  felony offense involving criminal possession of a firearm or
    22  criminal possession of a weapon [in  the  third  degree  as  defined  in
    23  subdivision three of section 265.02] in violation of article two hundred

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03253-01-3

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     1  sixty-five of the penal law [or criminal sale of a firearm to a minor as
     2  defined in section 265.16 of the penal law].
     3    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.