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New York · 2025-2026 General Assembly

S06787 Enhances sentences for certain offenses involving weapons on or near school grounds; relates to the availability of certain records of juvenile delinquents or youthful offenders; relates to annual earnings limitations for certain retired police officers employed by a school district or a board of cooperative educational services; adds a defendant's identifiable ties to the community and state to consideration for whether to fix a securing order, including residence, employment, enrollment with an educational institution, and immediate family; allows courts to hold a pre-trial community safety and well-being hearing; relates to the court's consideration of the existence of extraordinary circumstances and significant physical injury in determining whether to remove adolescent offenders to family court; defines such terms; provides factors for the court's consideration of whether extraordinary circumstances exist; exempts adolescent offenders who were illegally in possession of a loaded firearm from those authorized to be removed to family court; modifies the crime of criminal solicitation in the third degree.

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Firearms otherAI label

Restricts gun access model confidence 90%

Enhances criminal sentences for many weapons and firearms offenses when committed on or within 5000 feet of school grounds, increasing penalties for illegal possession, manufacture, sale, transport and related acts involving firearms, assault weapons, machine guns, silencers, large capacity feeding

Matters occurring while on or within five thousand feet of school grounds, as defined in subdivision fourteen of section 220.00 of this chapter, shall result in the following enhancement of such sentence:

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Firearms red flag erpoAI label

Restricts gun access model confidence 85%

Expands the factors a court must consider when deciding whether to issue a temporary extreme risk protection order to include community safety and well-being, time elapsed, respondent's age at time of acts, mental health evaluations, and defines 'recent' as within six months.

In considering the factors under this subdivision, the court shall consider: (i) the time that has elapsed since the occurrence of such act or acts (ii) the age of the person at the time of the occurrence of such act or acts; and (iii) the community safety and well-being of all residents of the state.

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Firearms storage minorsAI label

Restricts gun access model confidence 80%

Enhances the sentence for offenses under section 265.50 relating to failure to safely store rifles, shotguns and firearms in the second degree to a misdemeanor when committed on or near school grounds.

For offenses committed under section 265.50 of this chapter relating to failure to safely store rifles, shotguns and firearms in the second degree, the sentence shall reflect a misdemeanor;

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Firearms weapon accessory restrictionsAI label

Restricts gun access model confidence 85%

Enhances sentences for offenses involving manufacture, transport, shipping, disposing of machine-guns, assault weapons, large capacity ammunition feeding devices, disguised guns, silencers, rapid-fire modification devices, and defaced firearms when committed on or near school grounds.

For offenses committed under subdivision one, two, or three of section 265.10 of this chapter relating to the manufacture, transport, shipping, or disposing of a machine-gun, assault weapon, large capacity ammunition feeding device or disguised gun, or the transporting, shipping or disposing of a firearm silencer, the sentence shall reflect a class C felony;

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Firearms purchase background checksAI label

Restricts gun access model confidence 75%

Enhances the sentence for offenses under section 265.45 (criminal purchase or disposal of a weapon) to a class E felony when committed on or near school grounds.

For offenses committed under section 265.45 of this chapter, the sentence shall reflect a class E felony;

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  1. Filed (completed)
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  5. Governor
  6. Law

Status: Died (session ended)

Last action
2026-01-07: REFERRED TO CODES
Filed
2025-03-24
Committee
Codes
Sponsor
Joseph Griffo R + 1 cosponsor (1 R)

Why the model tagged it this way: The bill primarily enhances criminal penalties for numerous firearms and weapons offenses (including possession, manufacture, sale, storage, defacement, and purchase/disposal) when committed on or near school grounds, which restricts firearm access and use. It also expands red-flag ERPO considerations to include community safety factors. Other provisions on juvenile records, pretrial detention, adolescent offender removal, retired police hiring, and solicitation do not substantively address the listed topics.

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History (2 actions)
DateChamberAction
2026-01-07SREFERRED TO CODES
2025-03-24SREFERRED TO CODES