STATE OF NEW YORK
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4525
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 16, 2023
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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 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
