Following a summer of impassioned rallying both for and against a single gun control bill, members of the Legislature will return after Thanksgiving to hear over 50 more.

Before they went home for the holiday, the Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security updated the legislative calendar to show they would meet Tuesday at 11 a.m. to hear testimony on 56 firearms bills offered this session.

An Act modernizing firearms laws, filed by Stoneham Rep. Michael Day, will not be heard by the joint committee. That controversial bill, which has been renumbered several times, was eventually passed through the House Ways and Means Committee without Senate input and attached to a budget bill. The Senate has not moved on the bill, but leadership in the upper chamber has expressed support for moving a similar omnibus gun bill this session.

Under consideration Tuesday, among many others, are bills which would institute a live fire requirement for getting and keeping a firearms license, require universal background checks for private gun sales, raise the age for possession of a firearm to 21, and outright ban semi-automatic firearms.

A bill offered by Republican state Sen. Ryan Fattman aims to clarify firearms ownership for medical marijuana patients.

An Act preserving second amendment rights for medical marijuana patients, according to its text, would change the law so that “the state of Massachusetts and its approved licensing bodies may not deny an otherwise qualified applicant for a license to carry or a firearm identification card solely on the basis of the applicant being a lawful holder of a medical marijuana patient license.”

A bill offered by Sen. Michael Barrett, An Act to require liability insurance for gun ownership, would institute a fine for anyone who lawfully possesses a gun “without a liability policy or bond or deposit required by the provisions of this chapter, which has not been provided and maintained in accordance therewith, shall be punished by a fine of not less than 500 nor more than 5,000 dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year in a house of correction, or both such fine and imprisonment.”

Massachusetts, which already has some of the nation’s strictest firearms laws and charts the lowest rates of gun related deaths and violence among the 50 states, is considering changes after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen.

That ruling, handed down in the summer of 2022, declared that most extraordinary firearms licensing requirements are at odds with the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

Tuesday’s hearing will be held in the State House’s Gardner Auditorium and live streamed on the Legislature’s website. The deadline to sign up to testify is Friday before midnight.