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; exempts adolescent offenders who were illegally in possession of a loaded firearm from those authorized to be removed to family court.
Not law yet. Pending legislation.
Official status checked 2026-10-21 23:46 PT
Griffo
Bill summary
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.
Now vs if chaptered
NOW: not law; no §70.11 school-grounds weapons bump and no loaded-firearm bar on AO family-court removal. IF CHAPTERED: listed weapons offenses near school grounds sentenced at the bumped felony class; AOs illegally possessing a loaded firearm stay in criminal court.
Defender utility
NY PDs on school-zone weapons and adolescent-offender calendars: pending sentence bump and a loaded-firearm bar on family-court removal, not present law. Do not apply §70.11 or the AO loaded-firearm carve-out today. If chaptered, isolate the gun counts from the non-gun securing-order / pension clutter; litigate "on or near school grounds" and whether the AO was "illegally in possession of a loaded firearm." Assembly twin A 05817. Not a California charge.
Who this is for. NY PDs on school-zone weapons and adolescent-offender calendars — pending sentence bump / family-court bar, not present law; not a California charge.
Exemptions (draft)
If chaptered: enhancement is place-based (on or near school grounds) as drafted; AO family-court bar is limited to illegal possession of a loaded firearm.
Penalties (if chaptered)
If chaptered: §70.11 class bumps (illustrative: 265.01-a/b as class D; 265.02 as class C). Not a current count.