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A 5952: Establishes the crime of falsely filing an extreme risk protection order to be punishable as a class E felony.
What A 5952 does, verified January 8, 2026
The proposed law aims to prevent individuals from filing false applications for extreme risk protection orders. It would make filing a false application for such an order a class E felony. The law would apply to both the Penal Law and the Civil Practice Law and Rules. The law would take effect immediately upon passage.
Bill journey
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2In CommitteePending
3First Chamber FloorPending
4Second ChamberPending
5GovernorPending
6ChapteredPending
Last action: referred to codes (2026-01-07)Alert me
Quick answers about A 5952
- What is the current status of A 5952?
- As of January 8, 2026, A 5952 is recorded as "Introduced": it has been introduced and is waiting for its first committee hearing or floor vote. The last recorded action, on January 7, 2026, was "referred to codes".
- Did A 5952 pass?
- Not yet. A 5952 has been introduced and has not passed either house.
- Who wrote A 5952, and where is it now?
- A 5952 was authored by Asm. Michael Reilly with 4 coauthors. Its committee of record is Assembly Codes.
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| Jan. 07, 2026 | referred to codes |
| Feb. 25, 2025 | referred to codes |
Latest bill textIntroduced version, February 25, 2025 · 273 words
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5952 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 25, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. REILLY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law and the civil practice law and rules, in relation to falsely filing an extreme risk protection order 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 400.12 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 400.12 Falsely filing an extreme risk protection order. 4 Any person that uses information they know to be false to file an 5 application for an extreme risk protection order pursuant to article 6 sixty-three-A of the civil practice law and rules shall be guilty of 7 falsely filing an extreme risk protection order. 8 Falsely filing an extreme risk protection order is a class E felony. 9 § 2. The civil practice law and rules is amended by adding a new 10 section 6349 to read as follows: 11 § 6349. Falsely filing an extreme risk protection order. Any person 12 that uses information they know to be false to file an application for 13 an extreme risk protection order pursuant to this article shall be guil- 14 ty of falsely filing an extreme risk protection order pursuant to 15 section 400.12 of the penal law. 16 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03367-01-5
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