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Senate advances substitute to add judicial review for Utah firearm-disqualification list
Summary
The Utah Senate approved a first substitute to SB 80 to create a court petition process allowing people listed for mental-health reasons to seek judicial review and possible removal from state and federal firearm-disqualification databases; debate centered on data-sharing with the NICS system, medical-record releases and narrowing evaluators to psychiatrists.
The Utah Senate on March 5 approved a first-substitute to Senate Bill 80 that establishes a judicial-review process for people placed on the state firearm-disqualification list for mental-health reasons.
Sponsor Senator Thatcher said the state currently lacks a clear appeal process and that recent data-sharing with the federal system exposed gaps: Utah recently transmitted a list of over 10,000 names to the national database, of which roughly 4,400 records were rejected, the sponsor said. The substitute creates a mechanism for a person to petition…
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