Assembly Bill A4729

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to securing orders for certain firearms offenses

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A4729 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§510.10, 530.20 & 530.40, CP L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A6737

2023-A4729 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits courts to remand a principal to the custody of the sheriff for felony offenses involving the possession of firearms and weapons.

2023-A4729 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4729
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 23, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to the authority
   to  remand  a principal charged with certain felony offenses involving
   the possession of firearms or weapons
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  (u)  of subdivision 4 of section 510.10 of the
 criminal procedure law, as added by section 2 of subpart B of part UU of
 chapter 56 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
   (u) ANY FELONY OFFENSE INVOLVING CRIMINAL POSSESSION OF A  FIREARM  OR
 criminal  possession  of  a  weapon  in  [the third degree as defined in
 subdivision three of section 265.02] VIOLATION OF  ARTICLE  TWO  HUNDRED
 SIXTY-FIVE of the penal law [or criminal sale of a firearm to a minor as
 defined in section 265.16 of the penal law].
   §  2.  Subparagraph (xxi) of paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section
 530.20 of the criminal procedure law, as added by section 4 of subpart C
 of part UU of chapter 56 of the laws of 2022,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   (xxi) ANY FELONY OFFENSE INVOLVING CRIMINAL POSSESSION OF A FIREARM OR
 criminal  possession  of  a  weapon  in  [the third degree as defined in
 subdivision three of section 265.02] VIOLATION OF  ARTICLE  TWO  HUNDRED
 SIXTY-FIVE of the penal law [or criminal sale of a firearm to a minor as
 defined in section 265.16 of the penal law].
   §  3. Paragraph (u) of subdivision 4 of section 530.40 of the criminal
 procedure law, as added by section 4 of subpart B of part UU of  chapter
 56 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
   (u)  ANY  FELONY OFFENSE INVOLVING CRIMINAL POSSESSION OF A FIREARM OR
 criminal possession of a weapon [in  the  third  degree  as  defined  in
 subdivision three of section 265.02] IN VIOLATION OF ARTICLE TWO HUNDRED
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03253-01-3
 A. 4729                             2

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