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2021 SESSION
HB 961 Assault firearms, certain firearm magazines, etc.; prohibiting sale, transport, etc., penalties.
Introduced by: Mark H. Levine | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Prohibiting sale, transport, etc., of assault firearms, certain firearm magazines, silencers, and trigger activators; penalties. Expands the definition of "assault firearm" and prohibits any person from importing, selling, transferring, manufacturing, purchasing, or transporting an assault firearm. A violation is a Class 6 felony. The bill prohibits a dealer from selling, renting, trading, or transferring from his inventory an assault firearm to any person. The bill makes it a Class 6 felony to import, sell, transfer, manufacture, purchase, possess, or transport silencers, and trigger activators, all defined in the bill. The bill makes it a Class 6 felony to import, sell, transfer, manufacture, purchase, or transport a large-capacity firearm magazine, as defined in the bill, and a Class 1 misdemeanor to possess such large-capacity firearm magazine. Any person who legally owns a large-capacity firearm magazine, silencer, or trigger activator on July 1, 2020, may retain possession until January 1, 2021. During that time, such person shall (i) render the large-capacity firearm magazine, silencer, or trigger activator inoperable; (ii) remove the large-capacity firearm magazine, silencer, or trigger activator from the Commonwealth; (iii) transfer the large-capacity firearm magazine, silencer, or trigger activator to a person outside the Commonwealth who is not prohibited from possessing it; or (iv) surrender the large-capacity firearm magazine, silencer, or trigger activator to a state or local law-enforcement agency.
FULL TEXT
- 01/07/20 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104855D pdf | impact statements
- 02/07/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20107888D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/10/20 House: Printed as engrossed 20107888D-EH1 pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/07/20 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104855D
- 01/07/20 House: Referred to Committee on Public Safety
- 02/07/20 House: Reported from Public Safety with substitute (12-Y 9-N)
- 02/07/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20107888D-H1
- 02/09/20 House: Read first time
- 02/10/20 House: Read second time
- 02/10/20 House: Committee substitute agreed to 20107888D-H1
- 02/10/20 House: Amendments by Delegate Helmer agreed to
- 02/10/20 House: Pending question ordered
- 02/10/20 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute with amendments HB961EH1
- 02/10/20 House: Printed as engrossed 20107888D-EH1
- 02/11/20 House: Read third time and passed House (51-Y 48-N)
- 02/11/20 House: VOTE: Passage (51-Y 48-N)
- 02/12/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/12/20 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 02/17/20 Senate: Continued to 2021 in Judiciary (10-Y 5-N)
- 12/04/20 Senate: Left in Judiciary