Kentucky House Bill 331 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: Introduced on January 22 2024 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2024-01-22 - to Committee on Committees (H)
Pending: House Committee On Committees Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to define terms; allow law enforcement officers to petition a court to issue an extreme risk protection order when a respondent poses a present danger of causing serious physical injury to themselves or others through purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm; establish procedures for the filing, review, hearing, termination, or renewal of the petition and orders; provide court processes and evidentiary standards; allow entry of the orders into law enforcement systems; prescribe issuance and service procedures for resulting protection orders; establish procedures for the surrender, storage, transfer, and return of firearms; establish penalties; create new sections of KRS Chapter 16 to direct the Kentucky State Police to establish the Kentucky Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearms List to prohibit the possession, sale, or transfer of firearms to individuals who voluntarily request to be added the list; prescribe procedures for application for entry and removal from the list; establish penalties; amend KRS 16.220 to direct proceeds of an auctioned firearm confiscated pursuant to a protective order to go to the firearm owner; amend KRS 237.110 to exclude persons subject to an extreme risk protection order from eligibility for a license to carry a concealed weapon; amend KRS 431.015 to allow warrantless arrest for violation of an extreme risk protection order; amend KRS 431.076 to allow expungement of records of dismissed petitions.

AN ACT relating to firearms.

Rep. Lisa Willner [D]	Sen. Keturah Herron [D]	Rep. Chad Aull [D]	Rep. Beverly Chester-Burton [D]
Rep. Daniel Grossberg [D]	Rep. Nima Kulkarni [D]	Rep. Josie Raymond [D]	Rep. Rachel Roberts [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-01-22	House	to Committee on Committees (H)
2024-01-22	House	introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24RS/hb331.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/hb331/orig_bill.pdf
Supplement	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/24RS/hb331/LM.pdf
Supplement	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/24RS/hb331/CI.pdf