Senate Bill S2160

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to revocation or suspension of a license to carry or possess a firearm

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-S2160 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §400.00, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S1279
2019-2020: S196
2023-2024: S1579

2021-S2160 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to revocation or suspension of a license to carry or possess a firearm.

2021-S2160 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S2160 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2160
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 20, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  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 revocation  or  suspension
   of a license to carry or possess a firearm
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 11 of section  400.00  of  the
 penal  law,  as  amended by chapter 1 of the laws of 2013, is amended to
 read as follows:
   (a) The conviction of a licensee  anywhere  of  a  felony  or  serious
 offense  or  a  licensee  at  any  time  becoming ineligible to obtain a
 license under this section shall operate as a revocation of the license.
 A license may be revoked or suspended as provided for in section  530.14
 of  the  criminal  procedure law or section eight hundred forty-two-a of
 the family court act; PROVIDED THAT A  REVOCATION  OR  SUSPENSION  OF  A
 LICENSE  UNDER SUCH SECTIONS SHALL ONLY OCCUR WHERE A TEMPORARY ORDER OF
 PROTECTION OR AN ORDER OF PROTECTION HAS BEEN  ISSUED,  OR  A  TEMPORARY
 ORDER  OF  PROTECTION  OR  AN  ORDER  OF  PROTECTION  HAS BEEN WILLFULLY
 VIOLATED. Except for a license issued pursuant to section 400.01 of this
 article, a license may be revoked and cancelled at any time in the  city
 of New York, and in the counties of Nassau and Suffolk, by the licensing
 officer,  and  elsewhere  than  in  the city of New York by any judge or
 justice of a court of record;  a  license  issued  pursuant  to  section
 400.01  of  this article may be revoked and cancelled at any time by the
 licensing officer or any judge or justice of  a  court  of  record.  The
 official  revoking  a  license shall give written notice thereof without
 unnecessary delay to the executive department, division of state police,
 Albany, and shall also notify immediately the  duly  constituted  police
 authorities of the locality.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07396-01-1

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