Senate Bill S9262

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Prohibits the provision of licenses for firearms to persons on the federal no-fly list or terrorist screening database

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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-S9262 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5145
Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §400.00, Pen L; amd §530.14, CP L; amd §223, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A10684
2023-2024: S3398, A4511

2021-S9262 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the provision of licenses for firearms to persons on the federal no-fly list or terrorist screening database; authorizes firearms licenses of persons on the federal no-fly list or terrorist screening database to be suspended or revoked; requires the superintendent of state police to search the federal no-fly list or terrorist screening database each year and report findings to appropriate enforcement agencies in order to suspend or revoke appropriate licenses.

2021-S9262 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S9262 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   9262
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 12, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to prohibiting the  provision
   of  licenses  for  firearms  to  persons on the federal no-fly list or
   terrorist screening database; to amend the criminal procedure law,  in
   relation to revoking or suspending firearms licenses of persons on the
   federal  no-fly list or terrorist screening database; and to amend the
   executive law, in relation to requiring the  superintendent  of  state
   police  to search the federal no-fly list or terrorist screening data-
   base and report findings to appropriate enforcement agencies
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  This  act  shall  be  known and may be cited as the "Deny
 Firearms to Dangerous Terrorists Act".
   § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 400.00 of the penal law, as  amended  by
 chapter 1 of the laws of 2013, paragraph (c) as amended by chapter 60 of
 the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
   1. Eligibility. No license shall be issued or renewed pursuant to this
 section  except  by  the licensing officer, and then only after investi-
 gation and finding that all statements in a  proper  application  for  a
 license  are  true.  No license shall be issued or renewed except for an
 applicant (a) twenty-one years of age or older, provided, however,  that
 where  such  applicant  has  been  honorably  discharged from the United
 States army, navy, marine corps,  air  force  or  coast  guard,  or  the
 national  guard  of the state of New York, no such age restriction shall
 apply; (b) of good moral character;  (c)  who  has  not  been  convicted
 anywhere  of  a felony or a serious offense or who is not the subject of
 an outstanding warrant of arrest issued upon the alleged commission of a
 felony or serious offense; (d) who is not a fugitive from  justice;  (e)
 who  is  not an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance
 as defined in section 21 U.S.C. 802; (f) who being an alien (i)  is  not
 illegally or unlawfully in the United States or (ii) has not been admit-
 ted to the United States under a nonimmigrant visa subject to the excep-
 tion  in  18  U.S.C. 922(y)(2); (g) who has not been discharged from the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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