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A10485 Summary:

BILL NOA10485A

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SAME ASSAME AS S09334-A

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Amd §400.00, Pen L

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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.

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BILL NOA10485A

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03/06/2026referred to codes

05/22/2026amend and recommit to codes

05/22/2026print number 10485a

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 10485--A

 IN ASSEMBLY

 March 6, 2026
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 Introduced by M. of A. POWERS -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Codes -- recommitted to the Committee on Codes in accordance with
 Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
 reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

 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) No licensing officer, local government, or any employee thereof
 20 shall be liable to any person by reason of any injury or damage result-
 21 ing from the failure of any gunsmith or firearms dealer to comply with
 22 this subdivision or in consequence of any act or omission in connection
 23 with the implementation or enforcement of this subdivision.
 24 (e) Any person, firm or corporation required to display or otherwise
 25 provide the graphic warning sign pursuant to paragraph (b) of this
 26 subdivision who fails to display such sign shall be guilty of a

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD14415-02-6

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 1 violation punishable by imprisonment of not more than fifteen days or by
 2 a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or both. Each day that a
 3 violation continues shall be deemed a separate offense.
 4 (f) The provisions of this subdivision shall not supersede any local
 5 law or ordinance that imposes stricter disclosure or notice requirements
 6 and the notices required by this subdivision shall be in addition to any
 7 other notices required by any other federal, state or local law, ordi-
 8 nance, rule or regulation.
 9 (g) The department of health and department of mental hygiene may
 10 enact any rules that are necessary to implement paragraph (c) of this
 11 subdivision.
 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the two hundred tenth day after it
 13 shall have become a law.

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