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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

AB 692

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Relating to: voluntary prohibitions on purchasing a handgun. (FE)

Firearms and dangerous weapons Justice department of

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill requires the Department of Justice to allow individuals to prohibit

themselves from purchasing a handgun. Under the bill, DOJ must maintain a

database of individuals who voluntarily prohibit themselves from purchasing a

handgun. An individual may request inclusion in the database by submitting a

request to DOJ that indicates the length of the prohibition they are requesting: a

one-year, irrevocable prohibition; a five-year prohibition, the first year being

irrevocable; or a 20-year prohibition, the first year being irrevocable. During a

revocable period, an individual may remove the prohibition by submitting to DOJ a

request for removal and an affidavit from a licensed psychiatrist or psychologist

stating that the individual may possess a firearm without being a danger to himself

or herself or another. This bill also requires DOJ, when responding to a request for

a background check from a licensed firearm dealer regarding an individual who is

in the database, to indicate that the individual is prohibited from purchasing a

handgun.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Andraca (D) , Bare (D) , Clancy (D) , Conley (D) , Considine (D) , Emerson (D) , Haywood (D) , J. Anderson (D) , Jacobson (D) , Joers (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Palmeri (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Subeck (D)

7 cosponsors

Agard (D) , Hesselbein (D) , L. Johnson (D) , Larson (D) , Neubauer (D) , Roys (D) , Spreitzer (D)

Full history

  1. Nov 27, 2023 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Considine, Sinicki, Ohnstad, J. Anderson, Andraca, Bare, Clancy, Conley, Emerson, Jacobson, Joers, Palmeri, Ratcliff, Snodgrass, Subeck and Haywood; cosponsored by Senators Agard, Roys, Hesselbein, L. Johnson, Larson and Spreitzer

  2. Nov 27, 2023 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety

  3. Dec 6, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative Neubauer added as a coauthor

  4. Apr 15, 2024 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1