Assembly Bill A10624

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring proof of a mental health examination prior to issuing a license to carry a firearm

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A10624 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §400.00, Pen L

2021-A10624 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires written documentation of a mental health examination completed by a physician, psychologist or social worker licensed in this state that supports that a person is competent and not likely to act in a manner dangerous to public safety prior to issuing a license to carry a firearm to such person.

2021-A10624 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10624
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               July 6, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Paulin) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in  relation  to  requiring  proof  of  a
   mental  health  examination  prior  to  issuing  a  license to carry a
   firearm
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Paragraphs (m) and (n) of subdivision 1 of section 400.00
 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 1  of  the  laws  of  2013,  are
 amended and a new paragraph (o) is added to read as follows:
   (m)  who  has  not had a guardian appointed for him or her pursuant to
 any provision of state law, based on a determination that as a result of
 marked subnormal intelligence, mental illness, incapacity, condition  or
 disease,  he  or she lacks the mental capacity to contract or manage his
 or her own affairs; [and] (n) concerning whom no good cause  exists  for
 the denial of the license[.]; AND
   (O)  WHO  SUBMITS WRITTEN DOCUMENTATION OF A MENTAL HEALTH EXAMINATION
 COMPLETED BY A PHYSICIAN, PSYCHOLOGIST OR SOCIAL WORKER LICENSED IN THIS
 STATE THAT SUPPORTS THAT SUCH PERSON IS COMPETENT AND NOT LIKELY TO  ACT
 IN A MANNER DANGEROUS TO PUBLIC SAFETY.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16075-01-2

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