Senate Bill S1455A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

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

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  • Delivered to Governor
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2025-S1455 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1191
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §835, add §837-z, Exec L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S7802, A8333

2025-S1455 - 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-S1455 - Sponsor Memo

2025-S1455 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1455
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 10, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. KAVANAGH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed 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-
 SIONS TWELVE AND THIRTEEN, RESPECTIVELY, OF SECTION EIGHT HUNDRED  THIR-
 TY-FIVE OF THIS ARTICLE.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02280-01-5

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2025-S1455A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1191
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §835, add §837-z, Exec L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S7802, A8333

2025-S1455A (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-S1455A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S1455A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  1455--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 10, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. KAVANAGH, FERNANDEZ -- read twice and ordered print-
   ed,  and  when  printed  to  be committed to the Committee on Codes --
   reported favorably from said committee and committed to the  Committee
   on Finance -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
   amended and recommitted to said committee

 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
 TWELVE AND THIRTEEN, RESPECTIVELY, OF SECTION EIGHT HUNDRED  THIRTY-FIVE
 OF THIS ARTICLE.
   2.  THE DIVISION OR A DESIGNEE SHALL WITHIN TWO YEARS OF THE EFFECTIVE
 DATE OF THIS SECTION ENGAGE IN  AND  COMPLETE  A  STUDY  THAT  DESCRIBES
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02280-02-5

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