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TX HB2570
Bill
Status
2/7/2025
Primary Sponsor
John Bryant
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AI Summary
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Creates a new "extreme risk protective order" system allowing family members, household members, parents/guardians of minors in the household, or peace officers to petition courts to temporarily prohibit a person from purchasing, owning, possessing, or controlling firearms if they pose an immediate danger of causing bodily injury or death
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Requires respondents subject to an extreme risk protective order to relinquish firearms to law enforcement within 24 hours and surrender any license to carry a handgun; orders are effective for one year and may be renewed for an additional year after a hearing
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Expands firearm possession restrictions under existing protective orders (family violence, stalking, emergency protection) to apply to peace officers and military members only when possessing firearms for actual discharge of official duties, removing the previous exemption for sworn full-time employees
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Establishes criminal offenses including a Class A misdemeanor for violating an extreme risk protective order by possessing firearms, and a Class B misdemeanor for making false statements to request an extreme risk protective order
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Requires Department of Public Safety to report persons subject to extreme risk protective orders to the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System within 24 hours and suspends license to carry handgun eligibility for those under such orders
Legislative Description
Relating to extreme risk protective orders and certain other protective orders prohibiting possession of a firearm; creating criminal offenses.
Courts
Last Action
Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence
3/17/2025