STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           990

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
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        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:

     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.
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