STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5707

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 28, 2025
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        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law,  in  relation  to  including
          certain charges of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree
          as a qualifying offense for consideration of an order of recognizance,
          release under non-monetary conditions or bail

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (u) of subdivision 4 of  section  530.40  of  the
     2  criminal procedure law, as added by section 4 of subpart B of part UU of
     3  chapter 56 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (u)  criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree as defined in
     5  subdivision two or three of section 265.02 of the penal law or  criminal
     6  sale  of  a firearm to a minor as defined in section 265.16 of the penal
     7  law.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03454-01-5