 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          9086
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 18, 2018
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. BUTLER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes
 
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the penal law, in relation to the recertification of
          firearm licenses
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (b) of subdivision 10 of section 400.00 of the
     2  penal law, as added by chapter 1 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read
     3  as follows:
     4    (b) All licensees shall be recertified to the division of state police
     5  every five years thereafter. Any license  issued  before  the  effective
     6  date  of  [the]  chapter one of the laws of two thousand thirteen [which
     7  added this paragraph] shall be recertified by the licensee on or  before
     8  January  thirty-first,  two  thousand  [eighteen] nineteen, and not less
     9  than one year prior to such date, the state police shall send  a  notice
    10  to  all  license  holders  who  have  not recertified by such time. Such
    11  recertification shall be in a form as approved by the superintendent  of
    12  state  police,  which  shall  request the license holder's name, date of
    13  birth,  gender,  race,  residential  address,  social  security  number,
    14  firearms  possessed  by such license holder, email address at the option
    15  of the license holder and an affirmation that such license holder is not
    16  prohibited from possessing firearms. The form may be  in  an  electronic
    17  form  if so designated by the superintendent of state police. Failure to
    18  recertify shall act as a revocation of such license.  If  the  New  York
    19  state  police discover as a result of the recertification process that a
    20  licensee failed to provide a change  of  address,  the  New  York  state
    21  police shall not require the licensing officer to revoke such license.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14074-01-7
Relates to recertification of firearm licenses

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