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

Summary

The bill orders the New York Commissioner of Education, in consultation with the environmental conservation commissioner, to create age‑appropriate firearm‑safety lessons for middle and high school students. School districts may provide the instruction as an extracurricular or as part of an existing course, but students or their parents can opt out without penalty. Completion of the program counts toward the state’s hunter‑safety requirement for a hunting license.

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