Bill Details
Status
Latest action
2025-01-16 - Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced Date
2025-01-16
Policy Area
Crime and Law Enforcement
Committees
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Sponsors
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This bill would require the Attorney General to study whether extreme risk protection orders help reduce gun violence. These are court orders that can temporarily limit a person’s access to guns when they are seen as a serious risk to themselves or others. The study would have to be completed within one year after the bill becomes law and would be carried out through the Bureau of Justice Assistance.
Official Summaries
This bill directs the Bureau of Justice Assistance within the Department of Justice to study the efficacy of extreme risk protection orders on reducing gun violence.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 545 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 545
To direct the Attorney General to conduct a study on the efficacy of
extreme risk protection orders on reducing gun violence, and for other
purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 16, 2025
Mr. Torres of New York introduced the following bill; which was
referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
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A BILL
To direct the Attorney General to conduct a study on the efficacy of
extreme risk protection orders on reducing gun violence, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. STUDY ON EXTREME RISK PROTECTION ORDERS.
Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act,
the Attorney General, acting through the Director of the Bureau of
Justice Assistance, shall conduct a study on the efficacy of extreme
risk protection orders on reducing gun violence.
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