STATE OF NEW YORK
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                               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.
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