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Assembly Bill A10028

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Directs the commissioner of education to develop curriculum for firearm safety classes in schools and provides for schools to be able to provide firearm safety instruction

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2025-A10028 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §819, Ed L

2025-A10028 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the commissioner of education to develop curriculum for firearm safety classes in schools; provides for schools to be able to provide firearm safety instruction which can be used to obtain a hunting license.

2025-A10028 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10028
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 30, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. ANGELINO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Education
 
 AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to directing the commis-
   sioner of education to develop curriculum for firearm safety  instruc-
   tion in schools and provides for schools to be able to provide firearm
   safety instruction

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 819 to
 read as follows:
   § 819. INSTRUCTION RELATING TO FIREARM SAFETY. 1. THE COMMISSIONER, IN
 CONSULTATION WITH THE COMMISSIONER OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION,  SHALL
 DEVELOP  CURRICULUM  FOR  COURSES  ON  FIREARM SAFETY WHICH SHALL BE AGE
 APPROPRIATE AND DEVELOPED ACCORDING TO THE NEEDS AND ABILITIES OF PUPILS
 IN GRADES SIX THROUGH TWELVE. SUCH CURRICULA SHALL BE MADE AVAILABLE  TO
 EVERY SCHOOL IN THE STATE.
   2.  THE CURRICULUM DEVELOPED UNDER THIS SECTION SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT
 BE LIMITED TO:
   (A) PROPER USAGE AND HANDLING OF FIREARMS.
   (B) SAFE CLEANING AND MAINTENANCE OF FIREARMS.
   (C) DIFFERENT TYPES OF FIREARMS.
   (D) SAFE HUNTING PRACTICES.
   3. FIREARMS OR AMMUNITION SHALL NOT BE BROUGHT INTO A SCHOOL  BUILDING
 AS PART OF THE FIREARM SAFETY INSTRUCTION.
   4.  THE BOARD OF A SCHOOL DISTRICT MAY PROVIDE FIREARM SAFETY INSTRUC-
 TION FOLLOWING  THE  CURRICULUM  DEVELOPED  UNDER  THIS  SECTION  AS  AN
 OPTIONAL  EXTRACURRICULAR  CLASS  FOR  ANY  PUPIL  IN GRADES SIX THROUGH
 TWELVE IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OR MAY PROVIDE THE FIREARM SAFETY INSTRUC-
 TION AS PART OF AN EXISTING COURSE FOR THE PURPOSE OF TEACHING  SELF-EX-
 PRESSION AND ENJOYMENT OF RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY.
   5.  UPON REQUEST FROM A PUPIL OR THE PUPIL'S PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN,
 THE PUPIL SHALL BE EXCUSED, WITHOUT PENALTY OR LOSS OF ACADEMIC  CREDIT,
 FROM ATTENDING THE FIREARM SAFETY INSTRUCTION.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14460-01-6

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