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Senate Bill S6186
2023-2024 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R) 39th Senate District
Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2023-S6186 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A4525
- Current Committee:
- Senate Codes
- Law Section:
- Penal Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §265.01-b, Pen L
- Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
-
A9237
2023-S6186 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S6186 SPONSOR: ROLISON TITLE OF BILL: 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 PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: This bill will change the felony classification of criminal possession of a firearm from a class E felony to a class D felony. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1: Section 265.01-b of the penal law, is amended to read as follows: § 265.01-b Criminal possession of a firearm. A person is guilty of criminal possession of a firearm when he or she:(1) possesses any firearm or; (2) lawfully possesses a firearm prior to the effective date of chapter one of the laws of two thousand thirteen subject to the registration requirements of subdivision sixteen-a of section 400.00 of this chapter and knowingly fails to register such firearm pursuant to
2023-S6186 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6186 2023-2024 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E 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: Section 1. Section 265.01-b of the penal law, as added by chapter 1 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows: § 265.01-b Criminal possession of a firearm. A person is guilty of criminal possession of a firearm when he or she: (1) possesses any firearm or; (2) lawfully possesses a firearm prior to the effective date of [the] chapter ONE of the laws of two thousand thirteen [which added this section] subject to the registration require- ments of subdivision sixteen-a of section 400.00 of this chapter and knowingly fails to register such firearm pursuant to such subdivision. Criminal possession of a firearm is a class [E] D felony. § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05143-01-3
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