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                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 16, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Judiciary
 
 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.
                                                            LBD04799-01-5