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2017 SESSION
HB 2429 Firearms; purchase, possession, or transportation.
Introduced by: Israel D. O'Quinn | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Purchase, possession, or transportation of firearms; petition to restore right. Provides that any person who is not a resident of the Commonwealth and who is prohibited from purchasing, possessing, or transporting any firearm in the Commonwealth due to an acquittal by reason of insanity, being adjudicated mentally incompetent or incapacitated, or being involuntarily admitted or ordered to outpatient treatment may petition for the restoration of such rights in the general district court of the city or county in which the most recent of such proceedings occurred. Current law provides that a person so prohibited may petition for the restoration of such rights in the general district court of the city or county in which he resides.
FULL TEXT
- 01/19/17 House: Presented and ordered printed 17104501D pdf
- 02/03/17 House: Committee substitute printed 17104704D-H1 pdf
- 02/23/17 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2429ER) pdf
- 03/16/17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0516) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/19/17 House: Presented and ordered printed 17104501D
- 01/19/17 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/24/17 House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law
- 01/25/17 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (10-Y 1-N)
- 02/03/17 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (19-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/17 House: Committee substitute printed 17104704D-H1
- 02/04/17 House: Read first time
- 02/06/17 House: Read second time
- 02/06/17 House: Committee substitute agreed to 17104704D-H1
- 02/06/17 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2429H1
- 02/07/17 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/17 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (97-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/17 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/08/17 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/15/17 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/17 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/17 Senate: Read third time
- 02/20/17 Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/17 Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/17 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/17 House: Enrolled
- 02/23/17 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2429ER)
- 02/23/17 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/24/17 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/28/17 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
- 02/28/17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- 03/16/17 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 516 (effective 7/1/17)
- 03/16/17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0516)