Proposed Connecticut Firearm Legislation
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Title: An Act Establishing An Excise Tax On Ammunition To Provide Funding For Community Gun Violence And Intervention Program Grants.
Description: To establish an excise tax on the purchase of ammunition by a business for sale at retail and dedicate the revenue generated from such tax to fund grants through the community gun violence intervention and prevention program, with the advice of the Commission on Community Gun Violence Intervention and Prevention.
Last Action: Referred to Joint Committee on Finance, Revenue and Bonding
Last Action Date: February 14, 2024
Title: An Act Requiring A Study Concerning The Funding For And Effectiveness Of The Community Gun Violence Intervention And Prevention Program.
Description: To require a study concerning the funding for and effectiveness of the community gun violence intervention and prevention program.
Last Action: File Number 107
Last Action Date: March 25, 2024
Title: An Act Concerning Security Of Certain Election Workers And Elections-related Locations.
Description: To (1) allow certain election workers to request that their residential addresses be exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, (2) establish a criminal prohibition on the possession of a firearm or deadly weapon within one thousand feet of certain election-related locations, and (3) establish a criminal prohibition on, and a civil cause of action for, threatening or harassing conduct toward election workers performing election-related duties.
Last Action: Referred by House to Committee on Judiciary
Last Action Date: April 16, 2024
Title: An Act Concerning Firearms Background Checks.
Description: To ensure employees and authorized agents of municipal, state or federal agencies involved in evaluating the proposed transfer of a firearm to a person under age twenty-one in this state or any other state have access to records of cases of juvenile matters involving delinquency proceedings.
Last Action: File Number 516
Last Action Date: April 16, 2024
Title: An Act Concerning Self-defense, Defense Of A Third Person And Assisting In Or Effecting An Arrest As Affirmative Defenses.
Description: To permit a defendant to request that a case or charge be dismissed due to an affirmative defense of self-defense, defense of a third person or assisting in or effecting the arrest of a person, and add to the list of factors a court considers when determining conditions of pretrial release of a defendant or arrested person whether such person has any available affirmative defenses.
Last Action: Referred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/16/24 5:00 PM
Last Action Date: April 11, 2024
Title: An Act Funding The State-wide Firearms Trafficking Task Force By Reducing Citizens' Election Program Grants.
Description: To provide funding to the state-wide firearms trafficking task force in order to reduce the number of violent gun related crimes.
Last Action: Referred to Joint Committee on Appropriations
Last Action Date: February 13, 2024
Title: An Act Concerning The Revisor's Technical Corrections To The General Statutes.
Description: To make various technical changes concerning grammar, clarity and accuracy of internal references and consistency in the general statutes.
Last Action: File Number 484
Last Action Date: April 15, 2024