STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9983

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 1, 2024
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        Introduced by M. of A. EACHUS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education

        AN  ACT to amend the education law and the executive law, in relation to
          directing that schools provide parents with information  on  the  safe
          storage of firearms

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

     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 115 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 115. Information on the safe storage of  firearms.  The  information
     4  developed pursuant to section eight hundred thirty-seven-x of the execu-
     5  tive  law  relating to the safe storage of firearms shall be made avail-
     6  able on the department's website and shall be provided to parents in all
     7  public, nonpublic, and charter schools at the beginning of  each  school
     8  year.
     9    §  2.  The  executive  law is amended by adding a new section 837-x to
    10  read as follows:
    11    § 837-x. Safe  storage  of  firearms  information.  The  division,  in
    12  consultation with the department of education, shall develop information
    13  on  the  safe storage of firearms pursuant to sections 265.45 and 265.50
    14  of the penal law, which is to be provided  to  parents  in  all  public,
    15  nonpublic,  and  charter schools pursuant to section one hundred fifteen
    16  of the education law. The information shall be provided in a  clear  and
    17  concise  manner  and  translated in the six most common languages in the
    18  state. Such information shall include, but not be limited to, an  expla-
    19  nation of the current law and how parents can obtain more information.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that section one
    21  of  this  act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding the
    22  date on which it shall have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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