Sponsors (21)
The bill aims to reduce youth firearm injuries and suicide by promoting safety education, safe-storage practices, and public-health data use, while creating trade-offs around privacy, added costs, potential perceived limits on gun-owner autonomy, and some school-funding/implementation uncertainty.
Children, youth, students and their parents: receive firearm-safety information and secure-storage education/resources that can reduce accidental injuries and impulsive suicides.
Families and communities experiencing acute crises: benefit from emphasis on brief crisis-escalation interventions and lethal-means barriers that can prevent impulsive suicide deaths.
Public health agencies, hospitals, and state governments: gain access to authoritative CDC/HHS findings and data to better target prevention priorities and allocate resources.
Gun owners and households with firearms: may face new campaigns, incentives, or future policy pressure that encourage storage mandates or behavioral requirements, imposing perceived restrictions and costs.
Schools and local education authorities: may face uncertainty about permissible uses of Title IV funds or new obligations tied to implementing guidance, creating administrative and planning burdens.
Students and families: could experience privacy risks if any curricula or data-collection components are implemented without clear safeguards.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Inserts a new 'Firearm safety resources' provision into Title IV, Part A of ESEA to create a statutory slot for school-focused firearm safety and suicide-prevention resources; substantive text not provided.
Introduced February 17, 2026 by Daniel Goldman · Last progress February 17, 2026
Adds a new "Firearm safety resources" provision into Title IV, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and records federal findings on rising firearm suicides and youth firearm deaths. The bill gives schools a statutory slot for school-focused firearm safety and suicide-prevention resources, but the substantive text of the new provision is not included in the provided sections, so specific requirements, funding, or obligations are not shown.