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2024 SESSION

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HB 585 Home-based firearms dealers; prohibited near schools, penalties.

Introduced by: Candi Mundon King | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Home-based firearms dealers; prohibited near schools; penalties. Provides that no home-based firearms dealer, as defined in the bill, shall be engaged in the business of selling, trading, or transferring firearms at wholesale or retail within 1.5 miles of any elementary or middle school, including buildings and grounds. The bill provides that any person who willfully violates such prohibition is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor for a first offense and guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor for a second or subsequent offense.

FULL TEXT

• 01/09/24  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104573D  pdf | impact statement
• 03/05/24  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB585ER)  pdf | impact statement

AMENDMENTS

• Governor's veto explanation

HISTORY

• 01/09/24  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104573D
• 01/09/24  House: Referred to Committee on Public Safety
• 01/16/24  House: Assigned PS sub: Firearms
• 01/25/24  House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 4-N)
• 01/25/24  House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns
• 01/26/24  House: Reported from Public Safety (12-Y 10-N)
• 01/26/24  House: Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns
• 01/30/24  House: Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #1
• 02/02/24  House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N)
• 02/02/24  House: Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (12-Y 10-N)
• 02/06/24  House: Read first time
• 02/07/24  House: Read second time and engrossed
• 02/08/24  House: Read third time and passed House (51-Y 47-N)
• 02/08/24  House: VOTE: Passage (51-Y 47-N)
• 02/09/24  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
• 02/09/24  Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
• 02/26/24  Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N)
• 02/27/24  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 02/28/24  Senate: Read third time
• 02/28/24  Senate: Passed Senate (20-Y 19-N)
• 03/05/24  House: Enrolled
• 03/05/24  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB585ER)
• 03/05/24  House: Signed by Speaker
• 03/07/24  Senate: Signed by President
• 03/11/24  House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024
• 03/11/24  Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
• 03/26/24  Governor: Vetoed by Governor
• 04/17/24  House: House sustained Governor's veto