Bill > SF4067

This bill appropriates $16,799,000 from the General Fund for various public safety, human services, and education initiatives for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2026, and June 30, 2027, and also enacts significant regulations on firearms. * **Department of Public Safety:** $484,000 for the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to implement a certification of ownership requirement for firearms. * **Department of Public Safety:** $1,600,000 for the Office of Justice Programs, including $100,000 for a public awareness campaign on extreme risk protection orders, $500,000 for a violence prevention project research center, and $1,000,000 for school safety grants to nonpublic schools. * **Department of Human Services:** $14,709,000 for various mental health initiatives, including $2,700,000 for school-linked behavioral health grants, $385,000 for family peer specialist start-up grants, $3,850,000 for mobile crisis grants, $1,930,000 for mental health grants for healthcare professionals, and $5,810,000 for mental health reimbursement rate increases. * **Department of Education:** $19,037,000 for education initiatives, including $37,000 for anonymous threat reporting systems and $19,000,000 for school safety aid. The bill also enacts new regulations and penalties related to firearms, including: * Defining and prohibiting the sale and possession of "semiautomatic military-style assault weapons" and "large-capacity magazines" (defined as feeding devices with a capacity of more than 17 rounds), effective July 1, 2027. * Requiring certification of ownership for these newly defined firearms and magazines. * Establishing new requirements for the sale and transfer of firearms, including background checks for semiautomatic military-style assault weapons and large-capacity magazines. * Criminalizing "ghost guns" (firearms without serial numbers or that can be readily made undetectable) and imposing penalties for their possession, sale, or manufacture. * Modifying provisions related to possessing dangerous weapons in schools, negligent storage of firearms, and reporting of law enforcement firearm discharges. * Reenacting the ban on binary triggers. * Clarifying and modifying the extreme risk protection order law, including expanding who can petition for such an order and modifying procedures for its issuance and enforcement. * Increasing reimbursement rates for certain mental health providers in the medical assistance program.