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
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