Kentucky HB 544: AN ACT relating to extreme risk protective orders. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to allow persons to petition in District Court for one-year extreme risk protective orders when the petitioner believes a respondent poses a significant danger of causing personal injury to themselves or others through owning, purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm or ammunition; establish procedures under which a temporary ex parte protective order could be issued; establish procedures for the filing, review, hearing, and possible extension of the petition; prescribe issuance and service procedures of a resulting protective order; establish procedures for the surrender, storage, and return of firearms and ammunition; establish penalties.

Status: To Judiciary (H) (as of 2018-03-01)

State: Kentucky · Session: 2018RS · Bill: HB 544

Sponsors: G. Brown Jr, J. Donohue, J. Jenkins, K. Flood, M. Marzian

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