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| 4 | 4 | | _____________________________ _____________________________ 1 |
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| 5 | 5 | | Councilmember Kenyan R. McDuffie Councilmember Robert C. White, Jr. 2 |
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| 8 | 8 | | _____________________________ ______________________________ 5 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Councilmember Charles Allen Councilmember Brooke Pinto 6 |
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| 12 | 12 | | _____________________________ 9 |
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| 13 | 13 | | Councilmember Janeese Lewis George 10 |
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| 17 | 17 | | A BILL 14 |
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| 19 | 19 | | ______________ 16 |
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| 21 | 21 | | IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 18 |
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| 23 | 23 | | ________________ 20 |
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| 26 | 26 | | To amend the District of Columbia Health Occupations Revision Act of 1985 to require 23 |
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| 27 | 27 | | continuing education requirements for the practice of medicine, registered nursing, 24 |
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| 28 | 28 | | practical nursing, nursing assistive personnel, and physician assistants to include firearm 25 |
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| 29 | 29 | | injury prevention and intervention education. 26 |
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| 31 | 31 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this 28 |
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| 32 | 32 | | act may be cited as the “Firearm Injury Prevention Amendment Act of 2024”. 29 |
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| 33 | 33 | | Sec. 2. Section 510(b) of the District of Columbia Health Occupations Revision Act of 30 |
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| 34 | 34 | | 1985, effective March 25, 1986 (D.C. Law 6-99; D.C. Official Code § 3-1205.10(b)), is amended 31 |
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| 35 | 35 | | by adding a new paragraph (6) to read as follows: 32 |
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| 36 | 36 | | “(6)(A) Except as provided in subsection (b-1) of this section, require that any 33 |
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| 37 | 37 | | continuing education requirements for the practice of medicine, the practice of registered 34 |
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| 38 | 38 | | nursing, the practice of practical nursing, the practice by nursing assistive personnel, and the 35 |
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| 39 | 39 | | practice of physician assistants licensed or registered under this section include: 36 |
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| 42 | 42 | | “(i) The relationship between depression, suicidal ideation, and 37 |
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| 43 | 43 | | gun suicide; 38 |
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| 44 | 44 | | “(ii) The relationship between domestic violence and gun violence; 39 |
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| 45 | 45 | | “(iii) Appropriate interventions and resources for depression, 40 |
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| 46 | 46 | | domestic violence, and suicide prevention; 41 |
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| 47 | 47 | | “(iv) Firearm injury risk factors; 42 |
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| 48 | 48 | | “(v) Safe storage of firearms and ammunition; 43 |
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| 49 | 49 | | “(vi) Extreme risk protection orders pursuant to section 1003 of the 44 |
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| 50 | 50 | | Firearms Control Regulations Act of 1975, effective May 10, 2019 (D.C. Law 22-314; D.C. 45 |
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| 51 | 51 | | Official Code § 7–2510.03); and 46 |
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| 52 | 52 | | “(vii) Best practices for discussing firearm access and safety 47 |
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| 53 | 53 | | during patient visits. 48 |
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| 54 | 54 | | “(B) For the purposes of this paragraph, the term: 49 |
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| 55 | 55 | | “(i) “Ammunition” shall have the same meaning as provided in 50 |
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| 56 | 56 | | section 101(2) of the Firearms Control Regulations Act of 1975, effective September 24, 1976 51 |
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| 57 | 57 | | (D.C. Law 1-85; D.C. Official Code § 7-2501.01(2)). 52 |
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| 58 | 58 | | “(ii) “Domestic violence” shall have the same meaning as provided 53 |
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| 59 | 59 | | in section 3032(1) of the Domestic Violence Hotline Establishment Act of 2013, effective 54 |
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| 60 | 60 | | December 24, 2013 (D.C. Law 20-61; D.C. Official Code § 4-551(1)). 55 |
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| 61 | 61 | | “(iii) “Firearm injury risk factors” means characteristics or 56 |
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| 62 | 62 | | conditions that increase the likelihood of engaging in firearm violence.”. 57 |
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| 63 | 63 | | Sec. 3. Fiscal impact statement. 58 |
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| 66 | 66 | | The Council adopts the fiscal impact statement in the committee report as the fiscal 59 |
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| 67 | 67 | | impact statement required by section 4a of the General Legislative Procedures Act of 1975, 60 |
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| 68 | 68 | | approved October 16, 2006 (120 Stat. 2038; D.C. Official Code § 1-301.47a). 61 |
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| 69 | 69 | | Sec. 4. Effective date. 62 |
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| 70 | 70 | | This act shall take effect following approval by the Mayor (or in the event of veto by the 63 |
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| 71 | 71 | | Mayor, action by the Council to override the veto), a 30-day period of congressional review as 64 |
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| 72 | 72 | | provided in section 602(c)(1) of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, approved December 65 |
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| 73 | 73 | | 24, 1973 (87 Stat. 813; D.C. Official Code § 1-206.02(c)(1)), and publication in the District of 66 |
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| 74 | 74 | | Columbia Register. 67 |
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