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DATE CREATED: March 9, 2023

Enacts the "children's weapon accident prevention act"; creates crimes of failure to store a weapon safely in the first and second degrees, aggravated failure to store a weapon safely, and criminally negligent storage of a weapon in the first and second degrees; provides affirmative defenses; directs the commissioner of education to develop a weapons safety program.

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LAST ACTION DATE: 01/03/2024

LAST AMENDMENT DATE: 03/09/2023

AN ACT to amend the penal law, the general business law and the education law, in relation to criminally negligent storage of a weapon and weapons safety programs for children

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SESSION: 2023-2024 General Assembly

VERSIONS: 1

LAST ACTION: referred to codes

ACTIONS: 2

SPONSORS: Maryjane Shimsky (D)* , Nader Sayegh (D)

KEYWORDS: Integrated Design Feature, Tragically Large Number, Criminally Negligent Storage, Assembly Codes Committee, Local School Board, Notice Conspicuously Stating, Specifically Warn Children, Weapons Safety Programs, Locked Boxes Therefor, Negligently Stored Weapons

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