Bill Text: NY S06304 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits persons named on the No Fly List maintained by the Terrorist Screening Center administered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation from obtaining or renewing a license to carry, possess, repair and dispose of firearms.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 0000-00-00 - [S06304 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S06304-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6304 IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 6, 2016 ___________ Introduced by Sens. HOYLMAN, DILAN, KRUEGER, SERRANO -- 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 persons named on the No Fly List maintained by the Terrorist Screening Center admin- istered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation from obtaining or renewing a license to carry, possess, repair and dispose of firearms The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 400.00 of the penal law, as 2 amended by chapter 1 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows: 3 1. Eligibility. No license shall be issued or renewed pursuant to this 4 section except by the licensing officer, and then only after investi- 5 gation and finding that all statements in a proper application for a 6 license are true. No license shall be issued or renewed except for an 7 applicant (a) twenty-one years of age or older, provided, however, that 8 where such applicant has been honorably discharged from the United 9 States army, navy, marine corps, air force or coast guard, or the 10 national guard of the state of New York, no such age restriction shall 11 apply; (b) of good moral character; (c) who has not been convicted 12 anywhere of a felony or a serious offense; (d) who is not a fugitive 13 from justice; (e) who is not an unlawful user of or addicted to any 14 controlled substance as defined in section 21 U.S.C. 802; (f) who being 15 an alien (i) is not illegally or unlawfully in the United States or (ii) 16 has not been admitted to the United States under a nonimmigrant visa 17 subject to the exception in 18 U.S.C. 922(y)(2); (g) who has not been 18 discharged from the Armed Forces under dishonorable conditions; (h) who, 19 having been a citizen of the United States, has not renounced his or her 20 citizenship; (i) who has stated whether he or she has ever suffered any 21 mental illness; (j) who has not been involuntarily committed to a facil- 22 ity under the jurisdiction of an office of the department of mental 23 hygiene pursuant to article nine or fifteen of the mental hygiene law, 24 article seven hundred thirty or section 330.20 of the criminal procedure EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13345-02-5
