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Assembly Bill A1191A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires the division of criminal justice services to study the technological viability of personalized firearms

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2025-A1191 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1455
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §835, add §837-z, Exec L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A8333, S7802

2025-A1191 - Summary

Enacts the "safer weapons, safer homes act"; requires the division of criminal justice services to study the technological viability of personalized firearms; defines personalized firearms; requires the division to report to the governor and the legislature on the results of the study.

2025-A1191 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1191
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 9, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BORES,  GLICK,  EPSTEIN, SHIMSKY, LEVENBERG,
   PAULIN, SIMON, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, MEEKS -- read once and referred to  the
   Committee on Codes
 
 AN  ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to defining personalized
   handguns and requiring the division of criminal  justice  services  to
   certify  the  technological  viability of personalized handguns and to
   establish requirements related to the sale of personalized handguns
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  This  act  shall  be known and may be cited as the "safer
 weapons, safer homes act".
   § 2. Section 835 of the executive law is amended  by  adding  two  new
 subdivisions 12 and 13 to read as follows:
   12.  "PERSONALIZED  HANDGUN" MEANS A PISTOL OR REVOLVER WHICH INCORPO-
 RATES WITHIN ITS DESIGN A PERMANENT PROGRAMMABLE FEATURE AS PART OF  ITS
 MANUFACTURE  THAT  CANNOT  BE  DEACTIVATED  AND RENDERS THE PERSONALIZED
 HANDGUN REASONABLY RESISTANT TO BEING FIRED EXCEPT WHEN ACTIVATED BY THE
 LAWFUL OWNER OR OTHER USER AUTHORIZED BY THE LAWFUL OWNER.  NO  MAKE  OR
 MODEL  OF  A  PISTOL  OR  REVOLVER SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE A "PERSONALIZED
 HANDGUN" UNLESS THE DIVISION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE SERVICES HAS DETERMINED
 THE PERSONALIZED HANDGUN MEETS THE  STANDARDS  ESTABLISHED  PURSUANT  TO
 SECTION EIGHT HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN-Y OF THIS ARTICLE.
   13.  "AUTHORIZED  USER" MEANS THE OWNER OF A PERSONALIZED HANDGUN OR A
 PERSON TO WHOM SUCH OWNER HAS GIVEN  CONSENT  TO  USE  THE  PERSONALIZED
 HANDGUN.
   §  3.  The  executive  law is amended by adding a new section 837-y to
 read as follows:
   § 837-Y. PERSONALIZED HANDGUNS; TECHNOLOGICAL VIABILITY  AND  REQUIRE-
 MENTS.  1. AS USED IN THIS SECTION, THE TERMS "PERSONALIZED HANDGUN" AND
 "AUTHORIZED USER" SHALL HAVE THE SAME MEANINGS AS  DEFINED  IN  SUBDIVI-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02280-01-5
 A. 1191                             2

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2025-A1191A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1455
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §835, add §837-z, Exec L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A8333, S7802

2025-A1191A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "safer weapons, safer homes act"; requires the division of criminal justice services to study the technological viability of personalized firearms; defines personalized firearms; requires the division to report to the governor and the legislature on the results of the study.

2025-A1191A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  1191--A
                                                            R. R. 156
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 9, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BORES,  GLICK,  EPSTEIN, SHIMSKY, LEVENBERG,
   PAULIN, SIMON, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, MEEKS, SEAWRIGHT, CRUZ, COLTON, WEPRIN,
   JACOBSON -- read once and  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Codes  --
   reported  and  referred to the Committee on Ways and Means -- reported
   and referred to the Committee on Rules -- ordered to a third  reading,
   passed  by  Assembly  and  delivered  to the Senate, recalled from the
   Senate, vote reconsidered, bill amended, ordered reprinted,  retaining
   its place on the special order of third reading
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring the division
   of  criminal  justice services to study the technological viability of
   personalized firearms
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  This  act  shall  be known and may be cited as the "safer
 weapons, safer homes act".
   § 2. Section 835 of the executive law is amended  by  adding  two  new
 subdivisions 12 and 13 to read as follows:
   12.  "PERSONALIZED  FIREARM"  MEANS A PISTOL OR REVOLVER THAT INCORPO-
 RATES WITHIN ITS DESIGN A PERMANENT PROGRAMMABLE FEATURE AS PART OF  ITS
 MANUFACTURE THAT CANNOT BE DEACTIVATED AND RENDERS IT REASONABLY RESIST-
 ANT  TO  BEING  FIRED EXCEPT WHEN ACTIVATED BY THE LAWFUL OWNER OR OTHER
 USER AUTHORIZED BY THE LAWFUL OWNER.
   13. "AUTHORIZED USER" MEANS THE OWNER OF A PERSONALIZED FIREARM  OR  A
 PERSON  TO  WHOM  SUCH  OWNER  HAS GIVEN CONSENT TO USE THE PERSONALIZED
 FIREARM.
   § 3. The executive law is amended by adding a  new  section  837-z  to
 read as follows:
   §  837-Z. PERSONALIZED FIREARMS; STUDY OF TECHNOLOGICAL VIABILITY.  1.
 AS USED IN THIS SECTION, THE TERMS "PERSONALIZED FIREARM"  AND  "AUTHOR-
 IZED  USER"  SHALL  HAVE  THE  SAME  MEANINGS AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISIONS

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02280-03-5

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