Language Access to Gun Violence Prevention Strategies Act of 2026

This bill would require the Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services to translate their public materials on gun violence prevention and firearm safety, including materials on extreme risk protection orders and safe gun storage, into at least the 10 most common non-English languages in the United States. Community-based organizations would review the translations before they are published and could receive funding for that work. The Department of Justice would give priority to grant applications for extreme risk protection order programs and similar efforts that include outreach plans for people with limited English proficiency, and certain grant recipients would have to translate public documents for language groups above a set size. Both departments would run national public awareness campaigns on gun violence prevention aimed at people with limited English proficiency and report to Congress on how the funds were used. The bill authorizes such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 2027.

Full text and official record on Congress.gov

Sponsors

• Kirsten E. Gillibrand Democrat sponsor
• 0 cosponsors