Gun Suicide Prevention Act

Gun Suicide Prevention Act

This bill prohibits manufacturers and retailers from selling firearms unless the firearm includes a label with the toll-free telephone number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5436 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5436

   To prohibit the sale of a firearm unless the firearm or packaging 
   carries a label that provides the number of the National Suicide 
                          Prevention Lifeline.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 30, 2021

 Ms. Brownley introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To prohibit the sale of a firearm unless the firearm or packaging 
   carries a label that provides the number of the National Suicide 
                          Prevention Lifeline.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Gun Suicide Prevention Act''.

SEC. 2. LABELING REQUIREMENT.

    (a) Prohibition.--Notwithstanding the exclusion of firearms from 
the definition of consumer product in section 3(a)(5)(E) of the 
Consumer Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2052(a)(5)(E)), it shall be 
unlawful for a manufacturer or retailer to sell or offer for sale any 
firearm that does not meet the requirements of subsection (b).
    (b) National Suicide Prevention Hotline Label.--A firearm meets the 
requirements of this subsection if a clear and conspicuous label is 
attached to the firearm or appears on any packaging of the firearm and 
on any descriptive material included with the firearm that--
            (1) is written in both English and Spanish;
            (2) in English, reads ``IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS 
        CONTEMPLATING SUICIDE, PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL SUICIDE 
        PREVENTION LIFELINE AT'' followed by the toll-free phone number 
        of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, maintained by the 
        Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use under 
        section 520E-3 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
        290bb-36c), or any successor to such toll-free number; and
            (3) contains a yellow triangle containing an exclamation 
        mark that appears immediately before the words ``IF YOU'' on 
        the label.
    (c) Enforcement.--A violation of the prohibition in subsection (a) 
shall be treated as a violation of section 19(a) of the Consumer 
Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2068). Any person who violates subsection 
(a) shall be subject to the penalties set forth in section 20 and 21 of 
such Act (15 U.S.C. 2069; 2070).
    (d) Retailer Defined.--In this section, the term ``retailer'' 
includes a dealer, as such term is definition in section 921(a) of 
title 18, United States Code.
    (e) Effective Date.--This Act shall take effect on the date that is 
two years after the date of enactment of this Act.
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