HB 1311 Summary

• Amends Oklahoma Self-Defense Act provisions related to handgun licensing by removing certain mandatory disqualifications, specifically deleting requirements related to incompetency adjudications and false statements on applications

• Clarifies that "currently undergoing treatment for a mental illness" excludes persons successfully treated for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), for both mandatory and temporary preclusions

• Renumbers and consolidates mandatory preclusion conditions in 21 O.S. Section 1290.10, reducing from 12 numbered items to 11 by removing specific provisions while maintaining core disqualifications

• Modifies temporary preclusion conditions in 21 O.S. Section 1290.11 to delete involuntary commitment as a permanent bar and revise mental health treatment preclusion language to include PTSD exemption

• Effective date: November 1, 2013