Proposed Kentucky Firearm Legislation HB544
Legislation Overview
Title: AN ACT relating to extreme risk protective orders.
Description: Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to allow persons to petition in District Court for one-year extreme risk protective orders when the petitioner believes a respondent poses a significant danger of causing personal 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 protective order; establish procedures for the surrender, storage, and return of firearms and ammunition; establish penalties.
Session: 2018 Regular Session
Last Action: to Judiciary (H)
Last Action Date: March 1, 2018
Sponsors
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5 sponsors: Joni Jenkins (D); Mary Marzian (D); George Brown (D); Jeffery Donohue (D); Kelly Flood (D);
Percentage of House Of Representatives sponsoring bill: 5% (5 of 100)
History
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| House | Mar 1, 2018 | to Judiciary (H) |
| House | Feb 27, 2018 | introduced in House |
Texts
| Type | Date | State Link | Text |
| Draft | 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
There have not been any votes on this bill
Link: link to state bill page
