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2024 SESSION
SB 639 Firearms; removal from persons posing substantial risk, penalties.
Introduced by: Glen H. Sturtevant, Jr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Firearms; removal from persons posing substantial risk; penalties. Repeals the procedure by which any attorney for the Commonwealth or law-enforcement officer may apply to a general district court, circuit court, or juvenile and domestic relations district court judge or magistrate for an emergency substantial risk order to prohibit a person who poses a substantial risk of injury to himself or others from purchasing, possessing, or transporting a firearm. The bill also removes the substantial risk order registry for the entry of orders issued.
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HISTORY
- 01/11/24 Senate: Presented and ordered printed 24104108D
- 01/11/24 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/22/24 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N)