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Senate Bill S3097

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to revocation or suspension of a license to carry or possess a firearm

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2025-S3097 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §400.00, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S1279
2019-2020: S196
2021-2022: S2160
2023-2024: S1579

2025-S3097 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that a license to carry or possess a firearm shall be revoked or suspended where a temporary order of protection or an order of protection has been issued, or a temporary order of protection or an order of protection has been willfully violated.

2025-S3097 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S3097 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3097
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 23, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  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 revocation  or  suspension
   of a license to carry or possess a firearm
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 11 of section  400.00  of  the
 penal  law, as amended by chapter 371 of the laws of 2022, is amended to
 read as follows:
   (a) The conviction of a licensee  anywhere  of  a  felony  or  serious
 offense  or  a  licensee  at  any  time  becoming ineligible to obtain a
 license, including engaging in conduct that would have resulted  in  the
 denial  of  a license, under this section shall operate as or be grounds
 for, a revocation of the license.  A license may be revoked or suspended
 as provided for in section 530.14  of  the  criminal  procedure  law  or
 section eight hundred forty-two-a of the family court act; PROVIDED THAT
 A REVOCATION OR  SUSPENSION OF A LICENSE  UNDER SUCH SECTIONS SHALL ONLY
 OCCUR  WHERE  A  TEMPORARY ORDER OF PROTECTION OR AN ORDER OF PROTECTION
 HAS BEEN ISSUED, OR A TEMPORARY ORDER  OF  PROTECTION  OR  AN  ORDER  OF
 PROTECTION  HAS  BEEN  WILLFULLY  VIOLATED.  Except for a license issued
 pursuant to section 400.01 of this article, a license may be revoked and
 cancelled at any time in the city of New York, and in  the  counties  of
 Nassau  and Suffolk, by the licensing officer, and elsewhere than in the
 city of New York by any judge or justice of a court of record; a license
 issued pursuant to section 400.01 of this article  may  be  revoked  and
 cancelled  at  any time by the licensing officer or any judge or justice
 of a court of record. A license to engage in the business of dealer  may
 be  revoked  or suspended for any violation of the provisions of article
 thirty-nine-BB of the general business  law.  The  official  revoking  a
 license  shall  give written notice thereof without unnecessary delay to
 the executive department, division of state police,  Albany,  and  shall
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06958-01-5

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