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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

SB 674

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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 Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, 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: Agard (D) , Hesselbein (D) , L. Johnson (D) , Larson (D) , Roys (D) , Spreitzer (D)

17 cosponsors

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

Full history

  1. Nov 9, 2023 · Senate

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

  2. Nov 9, 2023 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety

  3. Nov 27, 2023 · Senate

    Representative Haywood added as a cosponsor

  4. Dec 6, 2023 · Senate

    Representative Neubauer added as a cosponsor

  5. Apr 15, 2024 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1