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MI HB4214

Bill

Status

Introduced

3/8/2023

Primary Sponsor

John Fitzgerald

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Origin

House of Representatives

102nd Legislature

AI Summary

  • Establishes a trigger lock distribution program requiring hospitals, local health departments, and health professionals to provide free trigger locks and educational materials to parents and expectant parents at specified times (childbirth classes, infant birth, and well-baby visits through 6 months)

  • Defines trigger lock as a commercially available device designed to disable a firearm and prevent discharge, and applies to health professionals licensed under article 15 of the Public Health Code

  • Requires the Department of Health and Human Services to develop, adopt, or approve educational and instructional materials explaining risks of unlocked firearms to minors and to provide trigger locks and materials to hospitals, local health departments, and health professionals at no cost

  • Creates the trigger lock distribution fund in the state treasury to receive money and assets from any source for implementing the program, with the department as fund administrator

  • Requires hospitals, local health departments, and health professionals to report data on the number of trigger locks distributed to parents and expectant parents in a format determined by the department

Legislative Description

Health facilities: hospitals; trigger lock distribution program; establish. Amends 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.1101 - 333.25211) by adding pt. 95A.

Health facilities: hospitals

Last Action

Bill Electronically Reproduced 03/18/2023

3/9/2023

Committee Referrals

Judiciary3/8/2023

Full Bill Text

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