Assembly Bill A3401

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Modifies the crime of criminal solicitation in the third degree

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    • In Committee Senate
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    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2025-A3401 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §100.08, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A9429
2023-2024: A1587

2025-A3401 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Modifies the crime of criminal solicitation in the third degree; provides that a person is guilty of criminal solicitation in the third degree when such person, being over eighteen years of age, with the intent that another person under eighteen years of age engage in conduct that would constitute certain crimes, intentionally provides a loaded firearm to such other person.

2025-A3401 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3401
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 27, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BUTTENSCHON, JACOBSON, PHEFFER AMATO, SIMON,
   STERN, ANGELINO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to  modifying  the  crime  of
   criminal solicitation in the third degree
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 100.08 of the penal law, as added by chapter 422 of
 the laws of 1978, is amended to read as follows:
 § 100.08 Criminal solicitation in the third degree.
   A person is guilty  of  criminal  solicitation  in  the  third  degree
 when[,]:
   1.  being  over  eighteen  years  of age, with THE intent that another
 person under sixteen years of age engage in conduct that  would  consti-
 tute a felony, [he] SUCH PERSON solicits, requests, commands, importunes
 or  otherwise  attempts  to  cause  such  other person to engage in such
 conduct[.]; OR
   2. BEING OVER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE,  WITH  THE  INTENT  THAT  ANOTHER
 PERSON  UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE ENGAGE IN CONDUCT THAT WOULD CONSTI-
 TUTE A CRIME UNDER ARTICLE TWO HUNDRED SIXTY-FIVE OF THIS CHAPTER,  SUCH
 PERSON  INTENTIONALLY  PROVIDES A LOADED FIREARM TO SUCH OTHER PERSON IN
 ORDER TO PROTECT THE ACTOR FROM CRIMINAL PROSECUTION.
   Criminal solicitation in the third degree is a class E felony.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06651-01-5

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