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Assembly Bill A3659

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Classifies criminal possession of a firearm from a class E felony to a class D felony

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2025-A3659 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S990
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §265.01-b, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A9237
2023-2024: A4525, S6186

2025-A3659 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Classifies criminal possession of a firearm from a class E felony to a class D felony.

2025-A3659 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3659
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 29, 2025
                                ___________
 
 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:

   Section 1. Section 265.01-b of the penal law, as added by chapter 1 of
 the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
 § 265.01-b Criminal possession of a firearm.
   A person is guilty of criminal possession of a  firearm  when  [he  or
 she]  SUCH PERSON:  (1) possesses any firearm or; (2) lawfully possesses
 a firearm prior to the effective date of [the] chapter ONE of  the  laws
 of  two  thousand  thirteen  [which  added  this section] subject to the
 registration requirements of subdivision sixteen-a of section 400.00  of
 this  chapter  and  knowingly fails to register such firearm pursuant to
 such subdivision.
   Criminal possession of a firearm is a class [E] D felony.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00419-01-5

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