HB 75 Summary

• Creates a new gun violence protective order system allowing immediate family members or peace officers to petition district or superior courts to prohibit respondents from possessing, owning, purchasing, or receiving firearms or ammunition if they pose a danger to self or others.

• Establishes three types of orders: standard protective orders (effective 6 months), ex parte orders (effective 20 days), and emergency orders issued by peace officers (effective 72 hours), each with different notice and evidence requirements.

• Requires respondents to surrender all firearms and ammunition to law enforcement within 24 hours of receiving an order, with law enforcement retaining them until the order expires and then returning them unless the respondent sells them to a dealer.

• Amends the crime of violating a protective order to include gun violence protective orders and expands the central registry maintained by the Department of Public Safety to include all protective order types.

• Requires physicians, psychologists, psychological associates, social workers, marital and family therapists, and licensed professional counselors to report annually to the Department of Health and Social Services any serious threats of gun violence conveyed to them (reporting requirement expires February 1, 2020).