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2020 SESSION
SB 14 Trigger activators; prohibition, penalty.
Introduced by: Richard L. Saslaw | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Trigger activators; prohibition; penalty. Prohibits the manufacture, importation, sale or offer to sell, possession, transfer, or transportation of a trigger activator, defined in the bill as a device designed to allow a semi-automatic firearm to shoot more than one shot with a single pull of the trigger by harnessing the recoil energy of any semi-automatic firearm to which it is affixed so that the trigger resets and continues firing without additional physical manipulation of the trigger by the shooter. A violation is punishable as a Class 6 felony.
FULL TEXT
- 11/18/19 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100506D pdf | impact statements
- 02/03/20 Senate: Committee substitute printed 20106402D-S1 pdf | impact statements
- 03/03/20 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB14ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/31/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0527) pdf
HISTORY
- 11/18/19 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100506D
- 11/18/19 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 01/08/20 Senate: Moved from Courts of Justice to Judiciary due to a change of the committee name
- 02/03/20 Senate: Committee substitute printed 20106402D-S1
- 02/03/20 Senate: Reported from Judiciary with substitute (9-Y 5-N)
- 02/03/20 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/05/20 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/20 Senate: Read second time
- 02/07/20 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/07/20 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 20106402D-S1
- 02/07/20 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB14S1
- 02/10/20 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 18-N)
- 02/18/20 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/18/20 House: Read first time
- 02/18/20 House: Referred to Committee on Public Safety
- 02/21/20 House: Reported from Public Safety (14-Y 8-N)
- 02/25/20 House: Read second time
- 02/26/20 House: Read third time
- 02/26/20 House: Passed House (55-Y 45-N)
- 02/26/20 House: VOTE: Passage (55-Y 45-N)
- 03/03/20 Senate: Enrolled
- 03/03/20 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB14ER)
- 03/03/20 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/04/20 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/12/20 Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
- 03/12/20 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- 03/31/20 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 527 (effective 7/1/20)
- 03/31/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0527)