Proposed Kentucky Firearm Legislation SB244
Legislation Overview
Title: AN ACT relating to extreme risk protection orders.
Subject: Courts, District: Crimes and Punishments: Firearms and Weapons: Peace Officers and Law Enforcement: Police, State: Property: Public Safety: Civil Procedure: Corrections Impact: Local Mandate
Description: Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to allow persons to petition in District Court for one-year extreme risk protection orders when the petitioner believes a respondent poses a significant danger of causing serious physical injury to themselves or others through owning, purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm or ammunition; establish procedures under which a temporary ex parte protective order could be issued; establish procedures for the filing, review, hearing, and possible extension of the petition; prescribe issuance and service procedures of a resulting protection order; establish procedures for the surrender, storage, and return of firearms and ammunition; establish penalties.
Session: 2019 Regular Session
Last Action: to Judiciary (S)
Last Action Date: February 19, 2019
Sponsors
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1 sponsors: Morgan McGarvey (D);
Percentage of Senate sponsoring bill: 3% (1 of 38)
History
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| Senate | Feb 19, 2019 | to Judiciary (S) |
| Senate | Feb 15, 2019 | introduced in Senate |
Texts
| Type | Date | State Link | Text |
| Introduced | not available | state link | bill text |
Amendments
| Title | Description | Date | State Link | Text | Adopted |
| There are no amendments to this bill at this time | |||||
Votes - Click on description to view vote roll call
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Link: link to state bill page
