[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4271 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4271

  To prohibit the sale of a firearm unless it carries a warning label 
 that provides the number of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 10, 2019

  Ms. Brownley of California 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 it carries a warning label 
 that provides the number of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.

    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''.

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 Hotline Label.--A firearm meets the 
requirements of this subsection if a clear and conspicuous warning 
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 ``WARNING: IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW 
        IS CONTEMPLATING SUICIDE, PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL SUICIDE 
        PREVENTION LIFELINE AT'' followed by 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 word ``WARNING'' on 
        the label.
    (c) Enforcement.--A violation of the prohibition in subsection (a) 
shall be treated as a violation of section 19(a) of the Consumer 
Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2068). 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) Definition.--As used in this Act, the term ``retailer'' 
includes a dealer, as such term is definition in section 921(a) of 
title 18, United States Code.
    (e) Effective Date.--This Act shall take effect on the date that is 
two years after the date of enactment of this Act.
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