New York S 6535: Relates to permanency planning in juvenile delinquency and persons in need of supervision proceedings in family court

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S06535 Summary:

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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.

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03/17/2025REFERRED TO CODES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CODES

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 6535

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 17, 2025
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 Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- 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 sepa-
 2 rately amended by chapters 371 and 669 of the laws of 2022, is amended
 3 to read as follows:
 4 1. Eligibility. No license shall be issued or renewed pursuant to this
 5 section except by the licensing officer, and then only after investi-
 6 gation and finding that all statements in a proper application for a
 7 license are true. No license shall be issued or renewed except for an
 8 applicant (a) twenty-one years of age or older, provided, however, that
 9 where such applicant has been honorably discharged from the United
 10 States army, navy, marine corps, air force or coast guard, or the
 11 national guard of the state of New York, no such age restriction shall
 12 apply; (b) of good moral character, which, for the purposes of this
 13 article, shall mean having the essential character, temperament and
 14 judgement necessary to be entrusted with a weapon and to use it only in
 15 a manner that does not endanger oneself or others; (c) who has not been
 16 convicted anywhere of a felony or a serious offense or who is not the
 17 subject of an outstanding warrant of arrest issued upon the alleged
 18 commission of a felony or serious offense; (d) who is not a fugitive
 19 from justice; (e) who is not an unlawful user of or addicted to any
 20 controlled substance as defined in section 21 U.S.C. 802; (f) who being
 21 a noncitizen (i) is not illegally or unlawfully in the United States or
 22 (ii) has not been admitted to the United States under a nonimmigrant
 23 visa subject to the exception in 18 U.S.C. 922(y)(2); (g) who has not

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06335-01-5

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 1 been discharged from the Armed Forces under dishonorable conditions; (h)
 2 who, having been a citizen of the United States, has not renounced [his
 3 or her] such applicant's citizenship; (i) who has stated whether [he or
 4 she] such applicant has ever suffered any mental illness; (j) who has
 5 not been involuntarily committed to a facility under the jurisdiction of
 6 an office of the department of mental hygiene pursuant to article nine
 7 or fifteen of the mental hygiene law, article seven hundred thirty or
 8 section 330.20 of the criminal procedure law or substantially similar
 9 laws of any other state, section four hundred two or five hundred eight
 10 of the correction law, section 322.2 or 353.4 of the family court act,
 11 has not been civilly confined in a secure treatment facility pursuant to
 12 article ten of the mental hygiene law, or has not been the subject of a
 13 report made pursuant to section 9.46 of the mental hygiene law; (k) who
 14 has not had a license revoked or who is not under a suspension or inel-
 15 igibility order issued pursuant to the provisions of section 530.14 of
 16 the criminal procedure law or section eight hundred forty-two-a of the
 17 family court act; (l) in the county of W