A.C.R. 1


Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 1--Assemblymen 
    Dini, Schneider, Evans, Krenzer, Anderson, 
    Manendo, Goldwater, Ohrenschall, de Braga, 
    Chowning, Spitler, Segerblom, Price, Neighbors, 
    Perkins, Marvel, Hettrick, Monaghan, Close and 
    Bache

                 January 23, 1995
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        Referred to Committee on Education


SUMMARY--Encourages Department of Education and civic 
          and community service organizations to 
          implement Eddie Eagle Elementary Gun Safety 
          Education Program. (BDR R-1322)




EXPLANATION--Matter in italics is new; matter in bra
ckets [ ] is material to be omitted.

ASSEMBLY CONCURRENT RESOLUTION--Encouraging the Department of 
        Education and civic and community service organizations to 
        implement and teach the Eddie Eagle Elementary Gun Safety 
        Education Program.


  WHEREAS, Teaching children how to act safely 
around firearms is a critical step in the effort to reduce 
the number of accidents related to firearms that involve 
children; and
  WHEREAS, The Nevada Legislature would like to 
encourage civic activism and volunteerism rather than the 
imposition of new and unfunded state mandates on local 
governments as the means to reduce such accidents; and
  WHEREAS, The Eddie Eagle Elementary Gun Safety 
Education Program teaches the fundamentals of firearm safety 
to children through a simple and clear lifesaving message 
that children are taught to remember and act upon when they 
see a firearm; and
  WHEREAS, The Eddie Eagle Elementary Gun Safety 
Education Program is a nationally recognized firearm safety 
program that has been taught to over 6,000,000 children 
since 1988 and has been recognized by the National Safety 
Council as the Outstanding Community Service Program for 
1993; now, therefore, be it 
  RESOLVED BY THE ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, THE 
SENATE CONCURRING, That the Nevada Legislature 
encourages civic and community service organizations which 
are concerned about the safety and well-being of the 
children of this state to help provide funding for the 
implementation of the Eddie Eagle Elementary Gun Safety 
Education Program at the local level; and be it further
  RESOLVED, That the Nevada Legislature 
encourages the Department of Education to promote the use of 
the Eddie Eagle Elementary Gun Safety Education Program in 
the public schools to help prevent accidents related to 
firearms that involve children; and be it further
  RESOLVED, That the Nevada Legislature commends 
the National Rifle Association of America for developing the 
Eddie Eagle Elementary Gun Safety Education Program and 
making it available for use in the communities of this 
state; and be it further
  RESOLVED, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly 
prepare and transmit a copy of this resolution to the 
Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Executive Vice 
President of the National Rifle Association of America.

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