Bill Text: NY S06279 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: 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.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO CODES [S06279 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S06279-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6279 IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 6, 2016 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KLEIN -- 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: 1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Deny 2 Firearms to Dangerous Terrorists Act". 3 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 400.00 of the penal law, as amended by 4 chapter 1 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows: 5 1. Eligibility. No license shall be issued or renewed pursuant to this 6 section except by the licensing officer, and then only after investi- 7 gation and finding that all statements in a proper application for a 8 license are true. No license shall be issued or renewed except for an 9 applicant (a) twenty-one years of age or older, provided, however, that 10 where such applicant has been honorably discharged from the United 11 States army, navy, marine corps, air force or coast guard, or the 12 national guard of the state of New York, no such age restriction shall 13 apply; (b) of good moral character; (c) who has not been convicted 14 anywhere of a felony or a serious offense; (d) who is not a fugitive 15 from justice; (e) who is not an unlawful user of or addicted to any 16 controlled substance as defined in section 21 U.S.C. 802; (f) who being 17 an alien (i) is not illegally or unlawfully in the United States or (ii) 18 has not been admitted to the United States under a nonimmigrant visa 19 subject to the exception in 18 U.S.C. 922(y)(2); (g) who has not been 20 discharged from the Armed Forces under dishonorable conditions; (h) who, 21 having been a citizen of the United States, has not renounced his or her EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13346-01-5
