“Enact the Gun Safety Board and Research Act to establish a federal Gun Safety Board within the Department of Health and Human Services that conducts original research on reducing firearm violence, publishes policy recommendations, and runs a grant program funding firearm-violence-reduction research.”
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Independently verified against the primary GPO sources. DeSaulnier is the sole sponsor who introduced the 'Gun Safety Board and Research Act' as H.R.5273 in the 117th Congress on September 17, 2021. The bill text (govinfo BILLS-117hr5273ih) confirms it directs the HHS Secretary to establish a 'Gun Safety Board' within one year, to 'conduct original research about firearm violence reduction,' and to run a grant program (at least half of appropriated funds for external research/public education) — matching the promise nearly verbatim. The bill's status XML confirms sponsor Rep. DeSaulnier and that its action was limited to referral to the Committee on Energy and Commerce; it never advanced to a vote and did not become law (there is no federal Gun Safety Board within HHS). Authoring and driving a bill matching the promise, without enactment, is CHAMPIONED (+0.75), not FULL. The label is fair under a party-neutral standard: any sponsor who wrote and repeatedly introduced their own unenacted bill would earn the same CHAMPIONED rating. congress.gov and govtrack returned 403 to the fetcher (anti-bot), but the two govinfo primary sources fully substantiate the outcome, so no citation depends on an inaccessible page.
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