HB 809 Summary

• Requires the Department of Law Enforcement to include questions about a potential firearm buyer's criminal history and eligibility to purchase on a standard firearm purchase form.

• Mandates the Department notify correctional, law enforcement, prosecutorial, and criminal justice agencies within one week when a potential sale or transfer receives a nonapproval number, including the buyer's identity, licensee information, date and time of nonapproval, prohibiting criteria, and location of attempted purchase.

• Allows the Department to delay notifications if necessary to avoid compromising an ongoing investigation and permits notifications to be made via oral, written, or electronic communication.

• Maintains the existing $8 maximum fee per transaction for criminal history checks, with fees deposited into a segregated fund used only for operating the criminal history check system; requires annual accounting of receipts and expenditures to legislative leadership.

• Takes effect upon becoming law.