Senate Bill S746

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the safe storage of firearms and child access prevention; repealer

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Current Bill Status - On Floor Calendar

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-S746 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A814
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Rpld §847, Exec L; amd §4, Chap of 2024 (as proposed in S.9760 & A.10356-A); amd §206, Pub Health L

2025-S746 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the commissioner of health to develop and implement a public awareness campaign on the safe storage of firearms, rifles and shotguns and child access and prevention.

2025-S746 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S746 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    746
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MAYER  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the  safe  storage
   of  firearms  and  child  access prevention; to amend a chapter of the
   laws of 2024 amending the penal law and the executive law relating  to
   the  safe storage of firearms and child access prevention, as proposed
   in legislative bills numbers S. 9760 and A. 10356-A,  in  relation  to
   the  effectiveness  thereof;  and  to repeal certain provisions of the
   executive law relating thereto
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section 847 of the executive law as added by a chapter of
 the laws of 2024 amending the penal law and the executive  law  relating
 to the safe storage of firearms and child access prevention, as proposed
 in legislative bills numbers S. 9760 and A. 10356-A, is REPEALED.
   §  2.  Section 206 of the public health law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 32 to read as follows:
   32. (A) ON OR BEFORE JULY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE, THE COMMIS-
 SIONER SHALL DEVELOP  AND  IMPLEMENT  A  PUBLIC  AWARENESS  CAMPAIGN  TO
 EDUCATE  THE PUBLIC ON THE SAFE STORAGE OF FIREARMS, RIFLES AND SHOTGUNS
 AND CHILD ACCESS AND PREVENTION. THE  PUBLIC  AWARENESS  CAMPAIGN  SHALL
 INCLUDE,  BUT  NOT  BE  LIMITED TO, EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS, RESOURCES AND
 INFORMATION RELATED TO NEW YORK STATE CHILD ACCESS PREVENTION  LAWS  AND
 LAWS  RELATING TO THE SAFE STORAGE AND TRANSPORT OF FIREARMS, RIFLES AND
 SHOTGUNS INCLUDING SECTIONS 265.45, 265.46, AND 400.00 OF THE PENAL LAW,
 AVAILABLE METHODS FOR THE SAFE STORAGE OF FIREARMS, RIFLES AND  SHOTGUNS
 DESIGNED TO PREVENT CHILD ACCESS, FIREARM VIOLENCE PREVENTION RESOURCES,
 AND  COUNTY  AND  LOCAL  SPECIFIC  LAWS AND REGULATIONS RELATED TO CHILD
 ACCESS PREVENTION AND SAFE STORAGE OF FIREARMS, RIFLES AND SHOTGUNS.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02703-01-5

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