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Senate Bill S6613

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Prohibits the distribution and sale of certain lasers

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2025-S6613 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §240.80, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S6846
2017-2018: S4696
2019-2020: S3038
2021-2022: S5189
2023-2024: S4724

2025-S6613 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the distribution and sale of certain lasers.

2025-S6613 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S6613 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6613
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 18, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- 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 restricting  the  sale  of
   certain lasers
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 240.80  to
 read as follows:
 § 240.80 SALE OF A LASER.
   1. IT SHALL BE UNLAWFUL TO DISTRIBUTE, SELL OR OFFER FOR SALE A LASER,
 AS  DEFINED  BY  PARAGRAPH (A) OF SUBDIVISION THREE OF SECTION 240.76 OF
 THIS ARTICLE, WHICH EXCEEDS ONE MILLIWATT IN OUTPUT POWER.
   2. THIS SECTION SHALL NOT APPLY TO LASERS DESIGNED TO BE AFFIXED TO  A
 FIREARM  OR  TO  LASERS  USED  BY  OR  UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF A PERSON
 LICENSED UNDER ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-ONE OF THE EDUCATION LAW.
   SALE OF A LASER IS A CLASS A MISDEMEANOR.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10017-01-5

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