Requires written documentation of a mental health examination completed by a physician, psychologist or social worker licensed in this state that supports that a person is competent and not likely to act in a manner dangerous to public safety prior to issuing a license to carry a firearm to such person.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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IN ASSEMBLY
July 6, 2022
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Paulin) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to requiring proof of a
mental health examination prior to issuing a license to carry a
firearm
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraphs (m) and (n) of subdivision 1 of section 400.00
2 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 1 of the laws of 2013, are
3 amended and a new paragraph (o) is added to read as follows:
4 (m) who has not had a guardian appointed for him or her pursuant to
5 any provision of state law, based on a determination that as a result of
6 marked subnormal intelligence, mental illness, incapacity, condition or
7 disease, he or she lacks the mental capacity to contract or manage his
8 or her own affairs; [and] (n) concerning whom no good cause exists for
9 the denial of the license[.]; and
10 (o) who submits written documentation of a mental health examination
11 completed by a physician, psychologist or social worker licensed in this
12 state that supports that such person is competent and not likely to act
13 in a manner dangerous to public safety.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
15 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD16075-01-2
