Gun Suicide Prevention Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5306 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5306

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 11, 2025

  Ms. Brownley (for herself, Mr. Goldman of New York, Ms. Craig, Mrs. 
Watson Coleman, and Mr. Thanedar) 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 the packaging 
of the firearm carries a label that provides the number of the National 
          Suicide Prevention Lifeline, and for other purposes.

    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 of 
2025''.

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 Lifeline 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 988 and 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.--
            (1) Violation.--A violation of the prohibition described in 
        subsection (a) shall be treated as a violation of section 19(a) 
        of the Consumer Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2068(a)).
            (2) Penalties.--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 defined in section 921(a) of title 
18, United States Code).
    (e) Effective Date.--This Act shall take effect on the date that is 
2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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