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Proposed Maryland Firearm Legislation HB810

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Legislation Overview

Title: Mental Health Professionals - Duty to Report Risk of Serious Harm - Firearm Safety

Subject: Public Safety: Health Occupations: Guns: Health and Mental Hygiene, Department of: Law Enforcement: Liability: Licenses: Mental Health: Nurses: Physicians: Psychologists: Reports: Safety: Social Workers: State Police, Department of: Weapons

Description: Requiring specified mental health professionals under specified circumstances to report to the Director of Mental Hygiene specified information about an individual that the mental health professional is currently treating; requiring the Director to report specified information to the Secretary of State Police under specified circumstances; limiting the use of specified information to specified firearms-related purposes; etc.

Session: 2013 Regular Session

Last Action: Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m. (Health and Government Operations)

Last Action Date: March 1, 2013

Sponsors

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3 sponsors: Simmons;Rosenberg; McMillan;

Percentage of House Of Delegates sponsoring bill: 2% (3 of 141)

History
Chamber Date Action
House Mar 1, 2013 Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m. (Judiciary)
House Mar 1, 2013 Hearing 3/01 at 12:00 p.m. (Judiciary)
House Mar 1, 2013 Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m. (Health and Government Operations)
House Feb 26, 2013 Hearing cancelled
House Feb 6, 2013 First Reading Health and Government Operations and Judiciary
Texts
Type Date State Link Text
Introduced Feb 6, 2013 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

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