Bill Text: NY A09609 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Includes certain charges of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree as a qualifying offense for consideration of an order of recognizance, release under non-monetary conditions or bail.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-03-26 - referred to codes [A09609 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09609-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9609

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 26, 2024
                                       ___________

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

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the criminal procedure law, in relation to including
          certain charges of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree
          as a qualifying offense for consideration of an order of recognizance,
          release under non-monetary conditions or bail

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (u)  of subdivision 4 of section 530.40 of the
     2  criminal procedure law, as added by section 4 of subpart B of part UU of
     3  chapter 56 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (u) criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree as defined  in
     5  subdivision  two or three of section 265.02 of the penal law or criminal
     6  sale of a firearm to a minor as defined in section 265.16 of  the  penal
     7  law.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14917-01-4