STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1725--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 14, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sens. GALLIVAN, AKSHAR, JORDAN -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer
          Protection -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to  expanding  the
          definition  of  immediate  family  to  include  parents, step-parents,
          siblings, grandparents and grandchildren as such term relates  to  the
          private sale or disposal of certain firearms

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 898 of the general  business  law,
     2  as  amended  by  chapter  129 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    1. In addition to any other requirements pursuant to state and federal
     5  law, all sales, exchanges or disposals of firearms, rifles  or  shotguns
     6  shall  be  conducted  in  accordance with this section unless such sale,
     7  exchange or disposal is  conducted  by  a  licensed  importer,  licensed
     8  manufacturer  or licensed dealer, as those terms are defined in 18 USC §
     9  [922] 921, when such sale, exchange or disposal is conducted pursuant to
    10  that person's  federal  firearms  license  or  such  sale,  exchange  or
    11  disposal  is  between  members  of  an  immediate  family.  When a sale,
    12  exchange or  disposal  is  conducted  pursuant  to  a  person's  federal
    13  firearms  license,  before delivering a firearm, rifle or shotgun to any
    14  person, either (a) the National Instant Criminal Background Check System
    15  (NICS) or its successor has issued a "proceed" response to  the  federal
    16  firearms  licensee, or (b) thirty calendar days shall have elapsed since
    17  the date the federal firearms licensee  contacted  NICS  to  initiate  a
    18  national instant criminal background check and NICS has not notified the
    19  federal  firearms  licensee  that  the transfer of the firearm, rifle or
    20  shotgun to such person should be denied. For purposes of  this  section,
    21  "immediate  family"  shall  mean  spouses,  domestic  partners, children
    22  [and], step-children, parents, step-parents, siblings, grandparents  and
    23  grandchildren.
    24    § 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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