Bill > HB131

This bill creates a new chapter in the Code of Criminal Procedure that allows for the issuance of extreme risk protective orders, which prohibit a person from purchasing, owning, possessing, or controlling firearms if the court finds clear and convincing evidence that the person poses an immediate and present danger of causing bodily injury, serious bodily injury, or death to any person, including the person themselves, as a result of a serious mental illness and access to firearms. The bill also creates a criminal offense for making a false report to a prosecutor or peace officer related to a request for an extreme risk protective order, and amends the Penal Code to make it an offense to sell, rent, lease, loan, or give a firearm to a person subject to an active extreme risk protective order.