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117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 9227 
To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish and 
maintain a local gun violence prevention laws database, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 25, 2022 
Mr. DESAULNIER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to 
establish and maintain a local gun violence prevention 
laws database, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Local Gun Violence 
Reduction Act’’. 
SEC. 2. LOCAL GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION LAWS DATA-
BASE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than one year after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health 
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and Human Services, acting through the Director of the 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (in this Act 
referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’), shall establish and main-
tain a database in which units of State and local govern-
ment (including cities, towns, counties, and special district 
governments) enter into such database information on— 
(1) the laws and ordinances such units of gov-
ernment have enacted to reduce gun violence; and 
(2) how successful such laws and ordinances 
have been in reducing gun violence in the relevant 
jurisdictions. 
(b) INFORMATION.—The information included by a 
State or local government in the database established 
under subsection (a) with respect to a law or ordinance 
referred to in such subsection shall include the following 
information: 
(1) Information about the size of the unit of 
government involved. 
(2) The date on which the law or ordinance was 
enacted. 
(3) The date on which the law or ordinance 
took effect. 
(4) Data on the rates of gun violence and gun 
deaths in the unit of government both before and 
after the law or ordinance took effect. 
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(c) ACCESS.—The database established under sub-
section (a) shall be searchable by any State or local unit 
of government. 
(d) OUTREACH.—The Secretary shall conduct out-
reach to State and local governments to increase aware-
ness of the database under subsection (a) and to encour-
age such governments to use such database. 
(e) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Beginning 2 years after 
the date of the enactment of this section, and every 2 
years thereafter, the Secretary shall submit to Congress 
a report specifying, with respect to the database estab-
lished under subsection (a)— 
(1) how many submissions to such database 
have been received; 
(2) what common topics are identified in such 
submissions; 
(3) which laws or ordinances the reports con-
tained in such submissions indicate have been suc-
cessful; and 
(4) any geographic areas within the United 
States that have high or low participation in the 
database. 
(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section— 
(1) $1,500,000 for fiscal year 2023; and 
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(2) $1,000,000 for fiscal year 2024 and each 
fiscal year thereafter. 
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