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2022 SESSION
HB 509 Firearms; removal from persons posing substantial risk, penalties.
Introduced by: Marie E. March | 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
- 01/11/22 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101051D
- 01/11/22 House: Referred to Committee on Rules
- 02/03/22 House: Referred from Rules by voice vote
- 02/03/22 House: Referred to Committee on Public Safety
- 02/09/22 House: Assigned PS sub: Subcommittee #1
- 02/10/22 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 4-N)
- 02/11/22 House: Reported from Public Safety (11-Y 10-N)
- 02/13/22 House: Read first time
- 02/14/22 House: Read second time
- 02/14/22 House: Pending question ordered
- 02/14/22 House: Engrossed by House (52-Y 46-N)
- 02/14/22 House: VOTE: Engrossment (52-Y 46-N)
- 02/15/22 House: Read third time and passed House (52-Y 47-N)
- 02/15/22 House: VOTE: Passage (52-Y 47-N)
- 02/16/22 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/16/22 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 02/28/22 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N)