STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9645
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 30, 2018
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        Introduced by M. of A. BRINDISI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Codes
        AN  ACT  to  amend the penal law, in relation to extending the period of
          time for an initial firearm license recertification
          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  of the laws of two thousand thirteen which added
     7  this paragraph shall be recertified by the licensee on or before  [Janu-
     8  ary]  March  thirty-first,  two thousand eighteen, and not less than one
     9  year prior to such date, the state police shall send  a  notice  to  all
    10  license  holders  who  have not recertified by such time. Such recertif-
    11  ication shall be in a form as approved by the  superintendent  of  state
    12  police,  which  shall  request the license holder's name, date of birth,
    13  gender, race, residential  address,  social  security  number,  firearms
    14  possessed  by  such  license  holder, email address at the option of the
    15  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.
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