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The bill expands outreach, language access, and coordinated federal support to increase use of ERPOs and other gun‑violence prevention tools—likely improving safety for many communities—while raising costs, administrative burdens, and civil‑liberties concerns for individuals subject to ERPOs and for smaller organizations and budget planners.
Limited-English proficient people (including immigrants and racial/ethnic minorities) and people with disabilities will receive in-language, culturally competent, and accessible-format information about extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs), safe storage, and local prevention services, improving their ability to find and use safety tools and resources.
Communities at higher risk (including low-income areas and families) will see targeted outreach and grant-priority attention for ERPOs and crisis intervention courts, increasing the likelihood these prevention tools are used where they can reduce violence and suicide.
Local community-based organizations and nonprofits will gain funding, subgrant opportunities, and support to review and adapt materials, strengthening local capacity to deliver culturally relevant prevention programs and outreach.
Individuals named in extreme risk protection orders may experience temporary loss of firearm rights and related liberties, raising due-process and civil‑liberties concerns for those subject to ERPOs.
Taxpayers may face increased federal spending and administrative costs to translate, format, run a national campaign, and fund subgrants—plus an authorization that permits unspecified FY2027 spending—creating both immediate and future budgetary costs and uncertainty.
New translation, review, reporting, and 'significant resource' compliance requirements will increase administrative burden for federal agencies, state/local grant recipients, and especially small community organizations, potentially diverting resources from service delivery.
Based on analysis of 7 sections of legislative text.
Introduced February 12, 2026 by Kirsten Gillibrand · Last progress February 12, 2026
Requires the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services to make federally produced gun-violence prevention and firearm-safety materials available in the nation’s most commonly spoken non‑English languages, ensure cultural and accessibility review by community-based organizations, and fund that review. It also directs the Justice Department to give priority in certain grant programs to applicants with targeted outreach plans for people with limited English proficiency and requires both Departments to run national, in‑language public education campaigns and report to Congress on spending. The bill defines key terms (including priority languages and what counts as a “significant resource”), tasks federal agencies with translation, outreach, and reporting duties, and authorizes whatever sums are necessary for fiscal year 2027 to carry out these activities.