New York A 544: Requires police officers to take temporary custody of firearms when responding to reports of family violence

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A00544 Summary:

BILL NOA00544B

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SAME ASSAME AS S01985-A

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SPONSORPaulin

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COSPNSRSeawright, McMahon, Levenberg, Jacobson, Griffin, Sayegh, Shimsky, Otis

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd 140.10, CP L

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Requires police officers to take temporary custody of firearms for not less than one hundred twenty hours when responding to reports of family violence.

Go to top A00544 Actions:

BILL NOA00544B

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01/08/2025referred to codes

02/28/2025amend and recommit to codes

02/28/2025print number 544a

03/11/2025reported 

03/13/2025advanced to third reading cal.54

05/21/2025amended on third reading 544b

06/11/2025substituted by s1985a

&nbspS01985 AMEND=A HARCKHAM

&nbsp01/14/2025REFERRED TO CODES

&nbsp01/27/20251ST REPORT CAL.182

&nbsp01/28/20252ND REPORT CAL.

&nbsp02/03/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

&nbsp05/13/2025PASSED SENATE

&nbsp05/13/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

&nbsp05/13/2025referred to codes

&nbsp05/27/2025RECALLED FROM ASSEMBLY

&nbsp05/27/2025returned to senate

&nbsp05/27/2025VOTE RECONSIDERED - RESTORED TO THIRD READING

&nbsp05/27/2025AMENDED ON THIRD READING 1985A

&nbsp06/09/2025REPASSED SENATE

&nbsp06/09/2025RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY

&nbsp06/09/2025referred to codes

&nbsp06/11/2025substituted for a544b

&nbsp06/11/2025ordered to third reading cal.54

&nbsp06/11/2025passed assembly

&nbsp06/11/2025returned to senate

&nbsp10/09/2025DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR

&nbsp10/16/2025SIGNED CHAP.466

Go to topA00544 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:CODES Chair:Dinowitz 
DATE:03/11/2025AYE/NAY:16/6 Action: Favorable DinowitzAyeMorinelloNay

CookAyeReillyNay

LavineAyeMikulinNay

WeprinAyeTannousisNay

HevesiAyeAngelinoNay

SeawrightAyeMolitorNay

RosenthalAye

WalkerAye

VanelAye

CruzAye

EpsteinAye

BoresAye

ReyesAye

CunninghamAye

RomeroAye

AlvarezAye

Go to topA00544 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topA00544 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 544--B
 Cal. No. 54

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, SEAWRIGHT, McMAHON, LEVENBERG, JACOBSON,
 GRIFFIN, SAYEGH, SHIMSKY, OTIS -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Codes -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
 reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- reported
 from committee, advanced to a third reading, amended and ordered
 reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading

 AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to requiring
 police officers to take temporary custody of firearms when responding
 to reports of family violence

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

 1 Section 1. Paragraphs (a) and (c) of subdivision 6 of section 140.10
 2 of the criminal procedure law, as added by section 2 of part M of chap-
 3 ter 55 of the laws of 2020, are amended to read as follows:
 4 (a) (i) A police officer who responds to a report of a family offense
 5 as defined in section 530.11 of this chapter and section eight hundred
 6 twelve of the family court act:
 7 (1) may take temporary custody of any firearm, rifle, electronic dart
 8 gun, electronic stun gun, disguised gun, imitation weapon, shotgun,
 9 antique firearm, black powder rifle, black powder shotgun, or muzzle-
 10 loading firearm that is in plain sight or is discovered pursuant to a
 11 consensual or other lawful search[, and];
 12 (2) shall take temporary custody of any [such weapon] firearm, rifle,
 13 electronic dart gun, electronic stun gun, disguised gun, imitation
 14 weapon, shotgun, antique firearm, black powder rifle, black powder
 15 shotgun, or muzzle-loading firearm that is in the possession of any
 16 person arrested for the commission of [such] a family offense or
 17 suspected of its commission[.]; and
 18 (3) shall take temporary custody of any firearm, rifle, electronic
 19 dart gun, electronic stun gun, disguised gun, imitation weapon, shot-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02092-09-5

 A. 544--B 2

 1 gun, antique firearm, black powder rifle, black powder shotgun, or
 2 muzzle-lo