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HB 2 Firearm transfers; criminal history record information checks, penalty.
Introduced by: Kenneth R. Plum | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Firearm sales; criminal history record information checks; penalty. Requires a background check for any firearm sale and directs the Department of State Police (the Department) to establish a process for transferors to obtain such a background check from licensed firearms dealers. A person who sells a firearm to another person without obtaining the required background check is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill also provides that a purchaser who receives a firearm from another person without obtaining the required background check is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill removes the provision that makes background checks of prospective purchasers or transferees at firearms shows voluntary. The bill also provides that the Department shall have three business days to complete a background check before a firearm may be transferred. This bill incorporates HB 355 and is identical to SB 70.
FULL TEXT
- 11/18/19 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101194D pdf | impact statements
- 01/24/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20106617D-H1 pdf | impact statements
- 01/29/20 House: Floor substitute printed 20106943D-H2 (Fariss) pdf | impact statements
- 02/24/20 Senate: Committee substitute printed 20108950D-S1 pdf | impact statements
- 03/18/20 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2ER) pdf | impact statement
- 04/10/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1111) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 11/18/19 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101194D
- 11/18/19 House: Referred to Committee on Public Safety
- 01/24/20 House: Reported from Public Safety with substitute (13-Y 9-N)
- 01/24/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20106617D-H1
- 01/24/20 House: Incorporates HB355 (Kory)
- 01/28/20 House: Read first time
- 01/29/20 House: Floor substitute printed 20106943D-H2 (Fariss)
- 01/29/20 House: Incorporates HB355 (Kory)
- 01/29/20 House: Read second time
- 01/29/20 House: Passed by temporarily
- 01/29/20 House: Committee substitute agreed to 20106617D-H1
- 01/29/20 House: Committee substitute reconsidered
- 01/29/20 House: Passed by temporarily
- 01/29/20 House: Committee substitute agreed to 20106617D-H1
- 01/29/20 House: Substitute by Delegate Fariss out of order 20106943D-H2
- 01/29/20 House: Pending question ordered
- 01/29/20 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2H1
- 01/30/20 House: Read third time and passed House (54-Y 46-N)
- 01/30/20 House: VOTE: Passage (54-Y 46-N)
- 01/31/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/31/20 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 02/24/20 Senate: Reported from Judiciary with substitute (9-Y 5-N)
- 02/24/20 Senate: Committee substitute printed 20108950D-S1
- 02/25/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/26/20 Senate: Read third time
- 02/26/20 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/26/20 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 20108950D-S1
- 02/26/20 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB2S1
- 02/26/20 Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (23-Y 17-N)
- 02/28/20 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/28/20 House: Senate substitute rejected by House 20108950D-S1 (1-Y 98-N)
- 02/28/20 House: VOTE: REJECTED (1-Y 98-N)
- 03/02/20 Senate: Senate insisted on substitute (22-Y 16-N)
- 03/02/20 Senate: Senate requested conference committee
- 03/03/20 House: House acceded to request
- 03/03/20 House: Conferees appointed by House
- 03/03/20 House: Delegates: Plum, Hope, Fariss
- 03/04/20 Senate: Conferees appointed by Senate
- 03/04/20 Senate: Senators: Petersen, Deeds, Obenshain
- 03/05/20 Conference: Amended by conference committee
- 03/05/20 House: Conference report agreed to by House (51-Y 45-N)
- 03/05/20 House: VOTE: Adoption (51-Y 45-N)
- 03/05/20 House: Reconsideration of conference report agreed to by House
- 03/05/20 House: Conference report agreed to by House (54-Y 44-N)
- 03/05/20 House: VOTE: Adoption #2 (54-Y 44-N)
- 03/07/20 Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (23-Y 16-N)
- 03/18/20 House: Enrolled
- 03/18/20 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2ER)
- 03/18/20 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/19/20 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/20/20 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 20, 2020
- 03/20/20 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- 04/10/20 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 1111 (effective 7/1/20)
- 04/10/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1111)