STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10624

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 6, 2022
                                       ___________

        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