CT HB06497

Establishes a Task Force on The Marketing of Firearms to Young Children effective July 1, 2013, to study the firearm industry's marketing to children and its potential contribution to violence in the state.

Task force composition includes 14 members: commissioners from Children and Families, Social Services, and Correction; Court Support Services Division executive director; Chief State's Attorney; six General Assembly members appointed by legislative leaders; one Commission on Children member; and two members from firearms industry, sporting organizations, or Boy Scouts appointed by House leadership.

Task force shall study marketing effects on children, receive reports and testimony from agencies and organizations, make policy recommendations, gather information on youth behavior impacts, and advise on coordination of state programs addressing firearm marketing to children.

All task force appointments must be made by July 31, 2013, with vacancies filled by the appointing authority.

Task force must submit findings and recommendations to the General Assembly and relevant joint standing committee by October 1, 2014.