S 633: Directs the division of criminal justice services to develop information on the safe storage of firearms to be provided to parents of school children.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 633 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ 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-y 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-y to 10 read as follows: 11 § 837-y. 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. LBD02451-01-5