Relates to consumer warnings regarding rifles, shotguns, and firearms; provides that a graphic warning that depicts the nature of the health and safety risks of firearms be provided when any license or permit is issued or amended.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9334
IN SENATE
March 3, 2026
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Introduced by Sen. BOTTCHER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to consumer warnings regard-
ing rifles, shotguns, and firearms
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 400.00 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 21 to read as follows:
3 21. (a) Upon the issuance of or amendment to a license or permit for
4 possession of a firearm, rifle or shotgun, the licensing officer shall
5 provide the licensee or permittee, as applicable, a graphic warning or
6 warnings designed pursuant to paragraph (c) of this subdivision together
7 with the notice required pursuant to subdivision twenty of this section.
8 (b) Where a firearms dealer displays or otherwise provides the notice
9 required pursuant to subdivision twenty of this section, adjacent to
10 such notice shall be a graphic warning sign designed pursuant to para-
11 graph (c) of this subdivision. Such graphic warning sign shall be unob-
12 structed in its entirety.
13 (c) The department of health and department of mental hygiene shall:
14 (i) design one or more graphic warnings that depict the nature of the
15 health and safety risks described in the notice required pursuant to
16 subdivision twenty of this section; and
17 (ii) publish and make available on its website the graphic warnings
18 designed pursuant to subparagraph (i) of this paragraph.
19 (d) Any person who violates paragraph (b) of this subdivision shall be
20 liable for a civil penalty in the amount of five thousand dollars for a
21 first violation within any twelve month period or ten thousand dollars
22 for a second or subsequent violation within any twelve month period.
23 (e) The department of health and department of mental hygiene may
24 enact any rules that are necessary to implement paragraph (c) of this
25 subdivision.
26 § 2. This act shall take effect on the two hundred tenth day after it
27 shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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