STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4958
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 6, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. BARCLAY, FINCH, HAWLEY, MALLIOTAKIS, McDONOUGH,
          MONTESANO, REILLY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABINANTI,  ARROYO,
          COLTON,  DeSTEFANO, GOODELL, KOLB, MANKTELOW -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Codes
        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation  to  prohibiting  individuals
          adjudicated as youthful offenders from possessing certain weapons
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
     2  "Nikki's law".
     3    §  2.  Subdivision 3 of section 265.01 of the penal law, as amended by
     4  chapter 1 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
     5    (3) He possesses a rifle or shotgun and  has  been  adjudicated  as  a
     6  youthful  offender  on or after the effective date of the chapter of the
     7  laws of two thousand nineteen  which  added  this  subdivision  for  any
     8  offense  listed  under  article  one hundred twenty-five of this chapter
     9  unless such person has been granted a certificate of relief  from  disa-
    10  bilities pursuant to article twenty-three of the correction law; or
    11    §  3.  Subdivision  1 of section 400.00 of the penal law is amended by
    12  adding a new paragraph (c-1) to read as follows:
    13    (c-1) who has not been adjudicated as a youthful offender on or  after
    14  the  effective  date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand nineteen
    15  which added this paragraph for any  offense  listed  under  article  one
    16  hundred  twenty-five of this chapter unless such person has been granted
    17  a certificate of relief from disabilities pursuant  to  article  twenty-
    18  three of the correction law;
    19    § 4. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    20  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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