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New York · 2025-2026 General Assembly

S00743 Includes rifles and shotguns in required warnings to consumers regarding the risk of death or suicide in homes where such weapons are present.

Direction

Firearms otherAI label

Restricts gun access model confidence 90%

Expands a 2024 law requiring firearms dealers, licensing officers and others to post and distribute suicide-prevention and risk-of-death warnings by adding rifles and shotguns to the weapons covered, so more gun owners receive the warnings.

Every person licensed as a gunsmith or a dealer in firearms shall post the following notice at the site where such rifles, shotguns, or firearms are sold, displayed or delivered to the purchaser

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Firearms industry liabilityAI label

Expands gun access model confidence 80%

Adds a new provision stating that no licensing officer, local government or employee shall be liable for injury or damage resulting from a gunsmith or firearms dealer's failure to comply with the warning requirements or from acts or omissions in implementing or enforcing them.

No licensing officer, local government, or any employee thereof shall be liable to any person by reason of any injury or damage resulting from the failure of any gunsmith or firearms dealer to comply with this subdivision or in consequence of any act or omission in connection with the implementation or enforcement of this subdivision.

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  1. Filed (completed)
  2. Committee (completed)
  3. Passed one chamber (completed)
  4. Passed both (completed)
  5. Governor (completed)
  6. Law

Stage: Law · step 6 of 6

Last action
2025-04-03: SIGNED CHAP.114
Filed
2025-01-08
Sponsor
Michael Gianaris D + 1 cosponsor (1 D)

Why the model tagged it this way: The bill amends Penal Law §400.00(20) to expand mandatory suicide-risk and unintentional-death warning signs and notices from 'weapons'/'firearms' to expressly include rifles and shotguns at point of sale, display, delivery, and upon license issuance. It also adds a liability shield for licensing officers and local governments related to dealer noncompliance or enforcement acts/omissions, and makes technical/severability corrections to the 2024 predecessor law. These provisions substantively address the firearms topic under the 'other' and 'industry-liability' subtags; no other listed topics (

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Hearings and calendar

Votes

DateChamberMotionYea-Nay
2025-01-13SSenate Rules Committee Vote14-7Passed
2025-02-03SSenate Floor Vote - Final Passage43-20Passed
2025-03-19AAssembly Floor Vote - Final Passage98-50Passed

Sponsors

Text versions

History (11 actions)
DateChamberAction
2025-04-03SSIGNED CHAP.114
2025-03-31SDELIVERED TO GOVERNOR
2025-03-19Areturned to senate
2025-03-19Apassed assembly
2025-03-19Aordered to third reading rules cal.42
2025-03-19Asubstituted for a437
2025-02-03Areferred to codes
2025-02-03SDELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
2025-02-03SPASSED SENATE
2025-01-13SORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.18
2025-01-08SREFERRED TO RULES