Bill Text: NY A06411 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits individuals adjudicated as youthful offenders for any offense listed under article one hundred twenty-five of the penal law, from possessing firearms, rifles and shotguns.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 13-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-25 - held for consideration in codes [A06411 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A06411-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6411

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 17, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. BARCLAY, HAWLEY, MONTESANO, McDONOUGH, REILLY,
          M. MILLER, LEMONDES, J. M. GIGLIO -- Multi-Sponsored by --  M.  of  A.
          ABINANTI, BLANKENBUSH, DeSTEFANO, GALLAHAN, GOODELL, MANKTELOW -- read
          once and referred to the Committee on Codes

        AN  ACT  to  amend the penal law, in relation to prohibiting individuals
          adjudicated as youthful offenders from possessing certain weapons

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

     1    Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
     2  "Nikki's law".
     3    § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 265.01 of the penal law, as  amended  by
     4  chapter 1 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
     5    (3)  He  possesses  a  rifle  or shotgun and has been adjudicated as a
     6  youthful offender on or after the effective date of the chapter  of  the
     7  laws  of  two  thousand  twenty-one which added this subdivision for any
     8  offense listed under article one hundred  twenty-five  of  this  chapter
     9  unless  such  person has been granted a certificate of relief from disa-
    10  bilities pursuant to article twenty-three of the correction law; or
    11    § 3. Subdivision 1 of section 400.00 of the penal law  is  amended  by
    12  adding a new paragraph (c-1) to read as follows:
    13    (c-1)  who has not been adjudicated as a youthful offender on or after
    14  the effective date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand twenty-one
    15  which added this paragraph for any  offense  listed  under  article  one
    16  hundred  twenty-five of this chapter unless such person has been granted
    17  a certificate of relief from disabilities pursuant  to  article  twenty-
    18  three of the correction law;
    19    § 4. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    20  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.
                                                                   LBD02873-01-1