Below is information on pro-reform bills introduced in the 133rd General Assembly with information about their current status and what you can do to support them.HB 240 (Kelly, Miranda) – Child Access Protection Act
Summary: to ensure firearms are stored safely and securely out of the reach of minors.
Summary: To enact the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act to allow family members, household members, and law enforcement officers to obtain a court order that temporarily restricts a person’s access to firearms if that person poses a danger to themselves or others.
Summary: To enact the Protect Law Enforcement Act to require a firearm transfer to be made through a dealer, through a law enforcement agency, or pursuant to a specified exception, and to require a background check when a firearm is transferred.
Summary: To require the juvenile court to expunge all records sealed pursuant to the juvenile sealing law upon the person’s twenty-eighth birthday, to expand the circumstances under which a person has a weapon under disability, to specify that moderate or severe substance use disorder is a mental illness for purposes of the law governing civil commitments, to require the Director of Public Safety to create and maintain the weapons disability data portal, to impose certain consequences on specified entities that fail to comply with data submission requirements, and to make an appropriation.
What activists can do: Ask Chairman Becker to schedule a first hearing on HB 647.
SB 19 (Williams) – Extreme Risk Protection Order Act
Summary: To enact the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act to allow household members, family, and law enforcement officials to obtain a court order to temporarily restrict an individual’s access to firearms if that person poses a harmful risk to either themselves or others.
What activists can do: Ask Chairman Coley to schedule additional hearings on SB 43.
SB 62 (Thomas) – Semi-Automatic Rate of Fire Restrictions
Summary: To prohibit certain conduct regarding a multitude of items (i.e. parts, components, attachments, devices, and accessories) that increase the rate of fire (but that do not convert such weapons into automatic firearms) for semi-automatic weapons.
Summary: To require private firearm transfers to be made through a dealer, a law enforcement agency, or pursuant to a special exemption, and to require a background check for such transfers.
What activists can do: Ask Chairman Coley to schedule additional hearings on SB 63.
SB 64 (Thomas) – Minimum Purchasing Age for Firearms
Summary: To raise the minimum purchasing age for firearms to 21 years of age, and to increase the penalties for improperly furnishing firearms to minors.
Summary: To require a firearm transfer to be made through a dealer, through a law enforcement agency, or pursuant to a specified exception, and to require a background check when a firearm is transferred.
Summary: To allow family members, household members, and law enforcement officers to obtain a court order that temporarily restricts a person’s access to firearms if that person poses a danger to themselves or others.
Summary: To generally prohibit a person from possessing trigger cranks, bump-fire devices, or other items that accelerate a semi-automatic firearm’s rate of fire but do not convert it into an automatic firearm and large capacity magazines.
What activists can do: Ask Chairman Coley to schedule additional hearings on SB 223.
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