Bill Text: NY S06186 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Classifies criminal possession of a firearm from a class E felony to a class D felony.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CODES [S06186 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S06186-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6186 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE April 3, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ROLISON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to classifying criminal possession of a firearm from a class E felony to a class D felony The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 265.01-b of the penal law, as added by chapter 1 of 2 the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 265.01-b Criminal possession of a firearm. 4 A person is guilty of criminal possession of a firearm when he or she: 5 (1) possesses any firearm or; (2) lawfully possesses a firearm prior to 6 the effective date of [the] chapter one of the laws of two thousand 7 thirteen [which added this section] subject to the registration require- 8 ments of subdivision sixteen-a of section 400.00 of this chapter and 9 knowingly fails to register such firearm pursuant to such subdivision. 10 Criminal possession of a firearm is a class [E] D felony. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 12 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05143-01-3