STATE OF NEW YORK
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7365--B
Cal. No. 1448
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 22, 2023
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Introduced by Sens. HOYLMAN-SIGAL, CLEARE, JACKSON, SKOUFIS -- read
twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the
Committee on Codes -- recommitted to the Committee on Codes in accord-
ance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee --
reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second
report, ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted,
retaining its place in the order of third reading
AN ACT to amend the penal law and the general business law, in relation
to pistol converters
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 265.00 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 36 to read as follows:
3 36. "Pistol converter" means any device or instrument that when
4 installed in or attached to the slide of a semi-automatic pistol inter-
5 feres with the trigger mechanism and thereby enables the pistol to
6 discharge a number of shots or bullets rapidly or automatically with one
7 continuous pull of the trigger.
8 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 898-a of the general business law, as
9 added by chapter 237 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
10 2. "Reasonable controls and procedures" shall mean policies that
11 include, but are not limited to: (a) instituting screening, security,
12 inventory and other business practices to prevent thefts of qualified
13 products as well as sales of qualified products to straw purchasers,
14 traffickers, persons prohibited from possessing firearms under state or
15 federal law, or persons at risk of injuring themselves or others; [and]
16 (b) preventing deceptive acts and practices and false advertising and
17 otherwise ensuring compliance with all provisions of article
18 twenty-two-A of this chapter; and (c) taking reasonable steps to prevent
19 the installation and use of a pistol converter, as defined in section
20 265.00 of the penal law, on qualified products.
21 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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