STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7343
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 8, 2018
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        Introduced  by Sens. SEWARD, 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 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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