STATE OF NEW YORK
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2396
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
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:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 380.1 of the family court act, as
2 amended by chapter 37 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 4. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, where a finding of
5 juvenile delinquency has been entered, upon request, the records
6 pertaining to such case shall be made available to the commissioner of
7 mental health or the commissioner of the office for people with develop-
8 mental disabilities, as appropriate; the case review panel; [and] the
9 attorney general pursuant to section 10.05 of the mental hygiene law;
10 the National Instant Criminal Background Check System in connection with
11 a background check conducted on a person under twenty-two years of age
12 pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 922(t)(1)(C) and 34 U.S.C. § 40901(1); and the
13 division of state police in connection with a background check conducted
14 on a person under twenty-two years of age pursuant to section two
15 hundred twenty-eight of the executive law.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
17 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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