New York A 3863: Enacts provisions providing protection to employees from retaliatory actions by employers where such employees report improper business activities

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A03863 Summary:

BILL NOA03863 

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SAME ASSAME AS S07302

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SPONSORDiPietro

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §400.00, Pen L

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Relates to the recertification process for firearms.

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BILL NOA03863 

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01/30/2025referred to codes

01/07/2026referred to codes

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 3863

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 30, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. DiPIETRO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Codes

 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the recertification proc-
 ess for licenses for firearms

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 5 and 10 of section 400.00 of the penal law,
 2 subdivision 5 as amended by chapter 1 of the laws of 2013, subparagraph
 3 (iii) of paragraph (e) of subdivision 5 as amended by chapter 244 of the
 4 laws of 2019, and subdivision 10 as amended by chapter 371 of the laws
 5 of 2022, are amended to read as follows:
 6 5. Filing of approved applications. (a) The application for any
 7 license, if granted, shall be filed by the licensing officer with the
 8 clerk of the county of issuance, except that in the city of New York
 9 and, in the counties of Nassau and Suffolk, the licensing officer shall
 10 designate the place of filing in the appropriate division, bureau or
 11 unit of the police department thereof, and in the county of Suffolk the
 12 county clerk is hereby authorized to transfer all records or applica-
 13 tions relating to firearms to the licensing authority of that county.
 14 Except as provided in paragraphs (b) through [(f)] (e) of this subdivi-
 15 sion, the name and address of any person to whom an application for any
 16 license has been granted shall be a public record. Upon application by a
 17 licensee who has changed [his] their place of residence such records or
 18 applications shall be transferred to the appropriate officer at the
 19 licensee's new place of residence. A duplicate copy of such application
 20 shall be filed by the licensing officer in the executive department,
 21 division of state police, Albany, within ten days after issuance of the
 22 license. The superintendent of state police may designate that such
 23 application shall be transmitted to the division of state police elec-
 24 tronically. In the event the superintendent of the division of state
 25 police determines that it lacks any of the records required to be filed

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD07407-01-5

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 1 with the division, it may request that such records be provided to it by
 2 the appropriate clerk, department or authority and such clerk, depart-
 3 ment or authority shall provide the division with such records. In the
 4 event such clerk, department or authority lacks such records, the divi-
 5 sion may request the license holder provide information sufficient to
 6 constitute such record and such license holder shall provide the divi-
 7 sion with such information. Such information shall be limited to the
 8 license holder's name, date of birth, gender, race, residential address,
 9 social security number and firearms possessed by said license holder.
 10 Nothing in this subdivision shall be construed to change the expiration
 11 date or term of such licenses if otherwise provided for in law. Records
 12 assembled or collected for purposes of inclusion in the database estab-
 13 lished by this section shall be released pursuant to a court order.
 14 Records assembled or collected for purposes of inclusion in the database
 15 created pursuant to section 400.02 of this chapter shall not be subject
 16 to disclosure pursuant to article six of the public officers law.
 17 (b) Each application for a license pursuant to paragraph (a) of this
 18 subdivision shall include, on a separate written form prepared by the
 19 division of state police within thirty days of the effective date of
 20 [the] chapter one of th