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2006 SESSION

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HB 704 Firearms, discharge of, or hunting; certain local ordinances invalid.

Introduced by: Clarke N. Hogan | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)

County ordinances; discharge of firearms and hunting.  Provides that a county may prohibit by ordinance hunting, the discharge of firearms, and the discharge of arrows from bows within one-half mile of a subdivision or in an area so heavily populated as to make hunting dangerous.  However, no ordinance regulating the discharge of firearms or bows may be more restrictive than an ordinance concerning hunting.  Any ordinance adopted after January 1, 1995 concerning the discharge of firearms or hunting that is more restrictive than the provisions of the act is invalid.

FULL TEXT

• 01/10/06  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/06 062418324  pdf
• 02/11/06  House: Committee substitute printed 067275324-H1  pdf
• 02/13/06  House: Printed as engrossed 067275324-EH1  pdf

AMENDMENTS

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HISTORY

• 01/10/06  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/06 062418324
• 01/10/06  House: Referred to Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety
• 02/10/06  House: Reported from Militia, Police and Public Safety with substitute (18-Y 3-N)
• 02/11/06  House: Committee substitute printed 067275324-H1
• 02/11/06  House: Read first time
• 02/13/06  House: Read second time
• 02/13/06  House: Committee substitute agreed to 067275324-H1
• 02/13/06  House: Amendments by Delegate McQuigg agreed to
• 02/13/06  House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute with amendments HB704EH1
• 02/13/06  House: Printed as engrossed 067275324-EH1
• 02/14/06  House: Read third time and passed House (69-Y 31-N)
• 02/14/06  House: VOTE: PASSAGE (69-Y 31-N)
• 02/14/06  House: Communicated to Senate
• 02/15/06  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
• 02/15/06  Senate: Referred to Committee on Local Government
• 02/28/06  Senate: Continued to 2007 in Local Government (8-Y 7-N)