Bill Text: NY A03391 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits individuals adjudicated as youthful offenders for any offense listed under article one hundred twenty-five of the penal law, from possessing firearms, rifles and shotguns.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 11-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-05 - held for consideration in codes [A03391 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A03391-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3391
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 27, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. BARCLAY, FINCH, HAWLEY, MALLIOTAKIS, McDONOUGH,
          MONTESANO, OAKS, WALTER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.  of  A.  ABINANTI,
          ARROYO, BUTLER, COLTON, GOODELL, KOLB -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Codes
        AN  ACT  to  amend the penal law, in relation to prohibiting individuals
          adjudicated as youthful offenders from possessing certain weapons
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
     2  "Nikki's law".
     3    § 2.  Section 265.01 of the penal law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     4  subdivision 4-a to read as follows:
     5    (4-a)  He  possesses  a rifle or shotgun and has been adjudicated as a
     6  youthful offender on or after the effective date of the chapter  of  the
     7  laws  of  two  thousand  seventeen  which added this subdivision for any
     8  offense listed under article one hundred  twenty-five  of  this  chapter
     9  unless  such  person has been granted a certificate of relief from disa-
    10  bilities pursuant to article twenty-three of the correction law; or
    11    § 3. Subdivision 1 of section 400.00 of the penal law  is  amended  by
    12  adding a new paragraph (c-1) to read as follows:
    13    (c-1)  who has not been adjudicated as a youthful offender on or after
    14  the effective date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand  seventeen
    15  which  added  this  paragraph  for  any offense listed under article one
    16  hundred twenty-five of this chapter unless such person has been  granted
    17  a  certificate  of  relief from disabilities pursuant to article twenty-
    18  three of the correction law;
    19    § 4. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    20  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05373-01-7