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2024 SESSION
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.
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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