STATE OF NEW YORK
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3659
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 29, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. DURSO -- read once and referred 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
5 she] such person: (1) possesses any firearm or; (2) lawfully possesses
6 a firearm prior to the effective date of [the] chapter one of the laws
7 of two thousand thirteen [which added this section] subject to the
8 registration requirements of subdivision sixteen-a of section 400.00 of
9 this chapter and knowingly fails to register such firearm pursuant to
10 such subdivision.
11 Criminal possession of a firearm is a class [E] D felony.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
13 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00419-01-5
