Bill Text: NY A05736 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to mandatory dispositions and the commission of a felony offense while in possession of a firearm; provides an additional five years imprisonment.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 8-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-17 - held for consideration in codes [A05736 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A05736-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5736 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 14, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. MIKULIN -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to mandatory dispositions and commission of a felony offense while in possession of a firearm The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 60.14 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 60.14 Mandatory dispositions; commission of a felony offense while in 4 possession of a firearm. 5 When a person is convicted of a felony offense that has been committed 6 while in the possession or accompaniment of a firearm, the court's 7 sentence of such defendant in accordance with the provisions of article 8 seventy of this title shall include a mandatory additional sentence of 9 imprisonment for five years. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 11 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. LBD09476-01-9