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House Judiciary Committee reviews H.606 amendment adding petition process to restore firearms rights
Summary
The committee considered amendment 3.1 to H.606, which adds a family-division petition-for-relief process allowing certain people previously disqualified on mental‑health grounds to seek restoration of firearm rights; the solicitor general told members the proposal likely would survive constitutional review under recent Supreme Court precedents, and a motion to approve the amendment was made and seconded but no final roll-call vote appears in the transcript.
The House Judiciary Committee met March 13 to consider amendment draft 3.1 to H.606, which adds language clarifying that people who have been prohibited from possessing firearms because of certain mental‑health commitment orders may petition the family division for restoration of their firearms rights.
Eric Fpatrick of the Office of Legislative Council told the committee the new text is narrow and largely codifies an existing Vermont petition-for-relief process. “This was passed concurrently … back in 2015,” he said, describing the earlier statute that established a mechanism for people to ask a court to find they are no longer a risk and have their rights restored. Fpatrick explained the bill…
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