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Senate Bill S2021

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Allows certain firearm licensees to open carry

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2025-S2021 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4163
Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §400.00, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S8609, A10307

2025-S2021 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expands the firearm license to have and carry concealed, without regard to employment or place of possession, to include open carry.

2025-S2021 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S2021 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2021
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. WALCZYK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to allowing  certain  firearm
   licensees to open carry
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Paragraph (f) of subdivision 2 of  section  400.00  of  the
 penal  law, as amended by chapter 371 of the laws of 2022, is amended to
 read as follows:
   (f) have and POSSESS, AND carry OPENLY OR concealed, without regard to
 employment or place of possession subject to the restrictions  of  state
 and federal law, by any person; and
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately,
 the  addition,  amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces-
 sary for the implementation of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are
 authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05553-01-5

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