Kentucky House Bill 544 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: Introduced on February 27 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-03-01 - to Judiciary (H)
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [PDF]

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.

AN ACT relating to extreme risk protective orders.

Rep. Joni Jenkins [D]	Rep. Mary Marzian [D]	Rep. George Brown [D]	Rep. Jeffery Donohue [D]
Rep. Kelly Flood [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-03-01	House	to Judiciary (H)
2018-02-27	House	introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB544.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/18RS/HB544/bill.pdf
Supplement	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/18RS/HB544/LM.pdf
Supplement	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/18RS/HB544/CI.pdf