Bill Text: NY S08028 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 8028 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Directs the division of criminal justice services to develop information on the safe storage of firearms to be provided to parents of school children.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-11 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S08028 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08028-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8028

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 11, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  LIU  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed 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-u 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-u  to
    10  read as follows:
    11    §  837-u.  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.
                                                                   LBD13852-01-9