Bill Text: NY A00655 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 655

Introduced

Bill Title: Makes it a class B felony to be a straw purchaser for firearms or to allow the use of your firearm in the commission of a class A or B felony.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to codes [A00655 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00655-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           655

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 11, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the penal law, in relation to creating penalties for
          straw purchasers of firearms

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 115.08 of the penal law, as added by chapter 422 of
     2  the laws of 1978, is amended to read as follows:
     3  § 115.08 Criminal facilitation in the first degree.
     4    A  person  is  guilty  of  criminal  facilitation  in the first degree
     5  when[,]:
     6    1. believing it probable that he or she is rendering aid to  a  person
     7  under  sixteen  years of age who intends to engage in conduct that would
     8  constitute a class A felony, he or she, being  over  eighteen  years  of
     9  age,  engages in conduct which provides such person with means or oppor-
    10  tunity for the commission thereof and which in fact aids such person  to
    11  commit such a class A felony; or
    12    2.    he or she purchases a firearm in his or her name with the intent
    13  of transferring possession of such firearm  to  another  individual  and
    14  does so transfer such firearm; or
    15    3. he or she allows another person to use his or her firearm to engage
    16  in the commission of a class A or class B felony.
    17    Criminal facilitation in the first degree is a class B felony.
    18    §  2.   This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    19  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01275-01-3