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2024 SESSION

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SB 57 Concealed handgun; carrying onto the premises of any restaurant, penalty.

Introduced by: Saddam Azlan Salim | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Carrying a concealed handgun onto the premises of any restaurant; penalty. Makes it a Class 2 misdemeanor for any person, except for active and qualified retired law-enforcement officers, to carry a concealed handgun onto the premises of any restaurant or club for which a license to sell and serve alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption has been granted by the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority. Under current law, a concealed handgun permit holder may carry a concealed handgun onto the premises of any restaurant or club that sells alcoholic beverages, but he is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor if he consumes an alcoholic beverage while on the premises.

FULL TEXT

• 12/26/23  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103837D  pdf | impact statement

HISTORY

• 12/26/23  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103837D
• 12/26/23  Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
• 01/10/24  Senate: Moved from Judiciary to Courts of Justice due to a change of the committee name
• 01/31/24  Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N)
• 02/02/24  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 02/05/24  Senate: Read second time and engrossed
• 02/06/24  Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (20-Y 18-N)
• 02/13/24  House: Placed on Calendar
• 02/13/24  House: Read first time
• 02/13/24  House: Referred to Committee on Public Safety
• 02/14/24  House: Assigned PS sub: Firearms
• 02/22/24  House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 3-N)
• 03/04/24  House: Left in Public Safety