Providing notice of firearm prohibition when serving notice for certain injunction hearings and process for surrendering firearms following the granting of certain injunctions. (FE)

The bill also creates a procedure for surrendering firearms after the court grants an injunction. If the respondent is present at the injunction hearing, he or she must provide the court with a completed firearm possession form, which requests information such as whether the respondent possesses, or has possessed in the previous six months, any firearm and, if so, the quantity and the make and model of the firearm. If the respondent is not present at the injunction hearing, the court must provide the petitioner the opportunity to inform the court, orally or in writing, whether he or she believes that the respondent possesses a firearm. If the court is satisfied that the respondent does not possess a firearm, the court must file the firearm possession form. If the firearm possession form or the petitioner indicates that the respondent possesses a firearm, or if the court is not satisfied that the respondent does not possess a firearm, the court must schedule a hearing to surrender firearms to occur with one week of the injunction hearing. The court must dismiss the hearing if the respondent surrenders his or her firearms to a sheriff within 48 hours or, if the respondent appeared at the injunction hearing and the court approves of the surrender, to another person who also appeared at the injunction hearing, who testifies under oath that the person received all of the firearms on the firearm possession form, who is not prohibited by law from possessing a firearm, and who is informed of the penalties for furnishing a firearm to a person who is prohibited by law from possessing a firearm (qualified person).

If the court does not dismiss the hearing to surrender firearms, the respondent must attend the hearing. A respondent who fails is in contempt of court and the court must issue an arrest warrant. At the hearing to surrender firearms the court must verify all of the information on the firearm possession form and either permit the surrender to a qualified person or order the respondent to surrender his or her firearms to the sheriff within 48 hours. A respondent who fails to comply with an order to surrender his or her firearms to a sheriff is in contempt of court and the court must issue an arrest warrant.