Fair Legal Access Grants Act

This bill would require the U.S. Attorney General to give grants to state, local, and tribal governments to provide lawyers and legal resources to people who are eligible to ask a court for an extreme risk protection order. These orders let a court bar a named person from having firearms or require their firearms to be removed. Grant money could pay for lawyers, interpreters, legal resource centers with materials in multiple languages, staff, subgrants to nonprofit legal aid groups, and training on how these orders differ from domestic violence protection orders. The bill authorizes $50 million per year for fiscal years 2027 through 2031. It also bars federal courts from hearing lawsuits brought in response to someone filing a petition for such an order, unless the petition was false or intentionally harassing.

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Sponsors

• Kirsten E. Gillibrand Democrat sponsor
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