S.B. 278 - Extreme Risk Protection Order Act

• Creates the "Extreme Risk Protection Order Act" allowing family members, household members, and law enforcement officers to petition courts for orders temporarily restricting a person's firearm access if they pose danger to themselves or others.

• Establishes procedures for obtaining extreme risk protection orders, including ex parte (temporary) orders issued without notice and final orders after a 14-day hearing with preponderance-of-evidence standard.

• Authorizes law enforcement to seize firearms from respondents and creates a one-year duration for orders, renewable by court petition and subject to respondent termination requests every 12 months.

• Makes violating an extreme risk protection order a third-degree misdemeanor; escalates to fifth-degree felony for repeat offenses with two or more prior convictions.

• Requires concealed handgun licenses to be revoked upon issuance of an extreme risk protection order and incorporates orders into background check systems and law enforcement databases statewide.