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2024 SESSION
SB 100 Plastic firearms & unfinished frames, etc.; manufacture, import, etc. prohibited, penalties.
Introduced by: Adam P. Ebbin | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Manufacture, import, sale, transfer, or possession of plastic firearms and unfinished frames or receivers and unserialized firearms prohibited; penalties. Creates a Class 5 felony for any person who knowingly manufactures or assembles, imports, purchases, sells, transfers, or possesses any firearm that, after removal of all parts other than a major component, as defined in the bill, is not detectable as a firearm when subjected to inspection by the types of detection devices, including X-ray machines, commonly used at airports, government buildings, schools, correctional facilities, and other locations for security screening. The bill updates language regarding the types of detection devices that are used at such locations for detecting plastic firearms. Under current law, it is unlawful to manufacture, import, sell, transfer, or possess any plastic firearm and a violation is punishable as a Class 5 felony.
The bill also creates a Class 1 misdemeanor, which is punishable as a Class 4 felony for a second or subsequent offense, making it unlawful for any person to knowingly possess a firearm or any completed or unfinished frame or receiver that is not imprinted with a valid serial number or to knowingly import, purchase, sell, offer for sale, or transfer ownership of any completed or unfinished frame or receiver, unless the completed or unfinished frame or receiver (i) is deemed to be a firearm pursuant to federal law and (ii) is imprinted with a valid serial number. The bill creates a Class 1 misdemeanor, which is punishable as a Class 4 felony for a second or subsequent offense, making it unlawful for any person to manufacture or assemble, cause to be manufactured or assembled, import, purchase, sell, offer for sale, or transfer ownership of any firearm that is not imprinted with a valid serial number. The portions of the bill prohibiting unfinished frames or receivers and unserialized firearms have a delayed effective date of January 1, 2025; however, the portions of the bill prohibiting the knowing possession of a firearm or any completed or unfinished frame or receiver that is not imprinted with a valid serial number have a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025. This bill is identical to HB 173.
FULL TEXT
- 01/03/24 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104102D pdf | impact statements
- 01/22/24 Senate: Committee substitute printed 24105790D-S1 pdf | impact statements
- 02/26/24 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB100ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/27/24 Senate: Governor's substitute printed 24109224D-S2 pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
- Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- Governor's recommendation
- Governor's veto explanation
HISTORY
- 01/03/24 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104102D
- 01/03/24 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
- 01/22/24 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (9-Y 6-N)
- 01/22/24 Senate: Committee substitute printed 24105790D-S1
- 01/22/24 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 01/31/24 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N)
- 02/01/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/24 Senate: Read second time
- 02/02/24 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/02/24 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 24105790D-S1
- 02/02/24 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB100S1
- 02/05/24 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 19-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
- 02/16/24 House: Reported from Public Safety (12-Y 10-N)
- 02/20/24 House: Read second time
- 02/21/24 House: Read third time
- 02/21/24 House: Passed House (52-Y 48-N)
- 02/21/24 House: VOTE: Passage (52-Y 48-N)
- 02/26/24 Senate: Enrolled
- 02/26/24 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB100ER)
- 02/26/24 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/28/24 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/24 Senate: 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 Senate: Governor's recommendation received by Senate
- 03/27/24 Senate: Governor's substitute printed 24109224D-S2
- 04/17/24 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 04/17/24 Senate: Communicated to Governor
- 04/17/24 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024
- 05/17/24 Governor: Vetoed by Governor