Senate Bill S9780

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Allows access to juvenile delinquency records for the purposes of a firearm background check

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Children And Families 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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2023-S9780 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10593
Current Committee:
Senate Children And Families
Law Section:
Family Court Act
Laws Affected:
Amd §380.1, Fam Ct Act

2023-S9780 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows access to juvenile delinquency records for the purposes of a firearm background check for an applicant who is under the age of twenty-two.

2023-S9780 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S9780 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9780
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 30, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. KAVANAGH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and Families
 
 AN ACT to amend the family court act, in relation to allowing access  to
   juvenile  delinquency records for the purposes of a firearm background
   check
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 4 of section 380.1 of the family court act, as
 amended by chapter 37 of the  laws  of  2016,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   4.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision  of law, where a finding of
 juvenile  delinquency  has  been  entered,  upon  request,  the  records
 pertaining  to  such case shall be made available to the commissioner of
 mental health or the commissioner of THE OFFICE FOR PEOPLE WITH develop-
 mental disabilities, as appropriate; the case review  panel;  [and]  the
 attorney  general  pursuant  to section 10.05 of the mental hygiene law;
 THE NATIONAL INSTANT CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECK SYSTEM IN CONNECTION WITH
 A BACKGROUND CHECK CONDUCTED ON A PERSON UNDER TWENTY-TWO YEARS  OF  AGE
 PURSUANT  TO  18 U.S.C. § 922(T)(1)(C) AND 34 U.S.C. § 40901(1); AND THE
 DIVISION OF STATE POLICE IN CONNECTION WITH A BACKGROUND CHECK CONDUCTED
 ON A PERSON UNDER TWENTY-TWO  YEARS  OF  AGE  PURSUANT  TO  SECTION  TWO
 HUNDRED TWENTY-EIGHT OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15804-02-4



              

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