Proposed West Virginia Firearm Legislation SB476
Legislation Overview
Title: Relating to distance firearm can be discharged near home, school or church
Subject: Firearms
Description: The purpose of this bill is to provide an exception to allow a homeowner or tenant to shoot a firearm in a lawful manner within five hundred feet of a dwelling house in which that person lives if no other dwelling house is located within five hundred feet of the person shooting. The bill also corrects an anomaly that allows a person to shoot a firearm at a closer distance to a school or church than to a dwelling house. This bill raises the distance for a school or church from 400 feet to 500 feet to bring it into conformity with the 500 feet shooting distance for dwelling houses.
Session: 2013 Regular Session
Last Action: To Natural Resources
Last Action Date: March 7, 2013
Sponsors
Note: the first sponsor listed is normally the primary sponsor. If a sponsor's name is a hyperlink you can click on it to 'follow the money'.
9 sponsors: Clark S. Barnes; Craig Blair;Bill Cole;Donald H. Cookman;Mike Green; Dave Sypolt; Bob Williams; Ron Stollings; Daniel J. Hall
Percentage of Senate sponsoring bill: 26% (9 of 34)
History
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| Senate | Mar 7, 2013 | Filed for introduction |
| Senate | Mar 7, 2013 | To Natural Resources then Judiciary |
| Senate | Mar 7, 2013 | Introduced in Senate |
| Senate | Mar 7, 2013 | To Natural Resources |
Texts
| Type | Date | State Link | Text |
| Introduced | not available | state link | bill text |
Amendments
| Title | Description | Date | State Link | Text | Adopted |
| There are no amendments to this bill at this time | |||||
Votes - Click on description to view vote roll call
There have not been any votes on this bill
Link: link to state bill page
