38 total bills, 18 anti-gun bills,
6 pro-gun bills for this session
Proposed Florida Firearm Legislation
38 total bills, 18 anti-gun bills,
6 pro-gun bills for this session
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note: Florida does not carry over legislation from session to session
Title: Expiration of the Mandatory Waiting Period for Firearm Purchases
Description: Removes provision authorizing mandatory waiting period to expire upon completion of records check.
Last Action: Died in Rules
Last Action Date: March 8, 2024
Title: Sales of Ammunition
Description: Requires background checks for sale or transfer of ammunition.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: March 8, 2024
Title: Pub Rec./Sales of Ammunition
Description: Provides exemption from public records requirements for records containing certain information pertaining to buyer or transferee who is not found to be prohibited from receipt or transfer of ammunition; provides for future legislative review & repeal of exemption; provides statement of public necessity.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: March 8, 2024
Title: Possession or Use of a Firearm in a Sensitive Location
Description: Defines "sensitive location"; prohibits possession or use of firearm in sensitive location; provides exceptions.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: March 8, 2024
Title: Discharging a Firearm in Residential Areas
Description: Revises prohibitions on discharge of firearms in residential areas; removes exceptions.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: March 8, 2024
Title: Assault Weapons and Large-capacity Magazines
Description: Prohibits sale, transfer, or possession of assault weapon or large-capacity magazine; requires certificates of possession for assault weapons or large-capacity magazines lawfully possessed before specified date; limits sales or transfers of assault weapons or large-capacity magazines documented by such certificates; provides enhanced penalties for offenses committed with assault weapon or large-capacity magazine.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: March 8, 2024
Title: Storage of Firearms in Private Conveyances and Vessels
Description: Prohibits storage of firearms in unoccupied private conveyances & vessels unless done so in specified manner; requires local law enforcement agencies to engage in promotional campaign.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: March 8, 2024
Title: Return of Weapons and Arms Following an Arrest
Description: Requires weapons, electric weapons or devices, or arms taken from person pursuant to arrest that are not seized as evidence or seized & subject to forfeiture to be returned to person within certain timeframe if specified conditions are met; authorizes sheriff or chief of police to develop procedures to ensure timely return of such weapons, electric weapons or devices, or arms; prohibits sheriff or chief of police from requiring court order before releasing such weapons, electric weapons or devices, or arms; provides exception; removes requirement for order of trial court judge to return pistol or firearm taken following arrest for breach of peace.
Last Action: Laid on Table
Last Action Date: March 4, 2024
Title: Unlawful Possession of Firearms or Weapons by a Person Adjudicated Delinquent
Description: Provides that person must have been adjudicated delinquent for an action committed as juvenile to cause person to lose right to possess firearm for specified period.
Last Action: Died in Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: March 8, 2024
Title: Use or Threatened Use of Force
Description: Removes provisions stating that persons who use or threaten to use force, other than deadly force, do not have duty to retreat before using or threatening to use such force in defense of persons or property; prohibits use of deadly force by person who knows that he or she can avoid using deadly force with complete safety by retreating; removes provisions stating that person using or threatening to use deadly force does not have duty to retreat & has right to stand his or her ground; repeals provisions relating to immunity from criminal prosecution & civil action for justifiable use or threatened use of force.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: March 8, 2024
Title: Drive-by Shootings
Description: Designates act "Laderius Clardy Act"; provides criminal penalties for offense of drive-by shooting.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: March 8, 2024
Title: Enhanced Firearms Training Facilities
Description: Establishes procedures for licensure by DACS; authorizes sheriff to provide supporting documentation to application for licensure; specifies duration of license; specifies conditions under which license must be revoked; authorizes sheriff to enter into agreement with owner of enhanced firearms training facility to conduct training for school guardian program at facility; exempts enhanced firearms training facility from complying with specified local government requirements in certain circumstances.
Last Action: Died in Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: March 8, 2024
Title: Outpatient Health Services
Description: Revises requirements relating to voluntary admissions to facility for examination & treatment, ordering person for involuntary services & treatment, petitions for involuntary service, appointment of counsel, & continuances of hearings; defines "involuntary outpatient placement."
Last Action: Died in Appropriations Committee
Last Action Date: March 8, 2024
Title: Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
Description: Revises, repeals, & creates various provisions relating to electric vehicle charging stations; pest control & fumigation; commercial landscaping & wildlife management; weapons & firearms; charitable organizations & professional solicitors; cultivated meat & saw palmetto berries; motor vehicle repair shops; Florida Agricultural Museum; trespass on & theft of property; weights & measures; household moving & shipping services; agricultural school activities; hunter ID program; & penalties for various violations.
Last Action: Laid on Table
Last Action Date: March 5, 2024
Title: Storage of Firearms in Motor Vehicles or Vessels
Description: Provides requirements for storage of firearms in motor vehicles or vessels.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: March 8, 2024
Title: Minimum Age for Firearm Purchase or Transfer
Description: Reducing minimum age at which person may purchase firearm & age of purchasers to which specified licensees are prohibited from selling or transferring firearm.
Last Action: Died in Rules
Last Action Date: March 8, 2024
Title: Juvenile Justice
Description: Authorizes DJJ employees & contracted providers to possess & administer opioid antagonists; provides immunity from liability for administration; replacing term "gender-specific" with "sex-specific"; eliminates minimum-risk nonresidential restrictiveness level; redesignates "nonsecure residential restrictiveness level" as "moderate-risk residential level"; revises provisions concerning transitioning child to & from secure detention care & supervised release detention care.
Last Action: Chapter No. 2024-133; companion bill(s) passed, see CS/SB 7004 (Ch. 2024-160)
Last Action Date: April 29, 2024
Title: Taxes, Licenses, and Fees
Description: Revising provisions related to indigent care & trauma center surtax, fees for certificates of title, license taxes, voluntary contributions, International Registration Plans, fees for driver licenses & identification cards, driver license endorsements, citrus assessments, recreational licenses & permits, court costs for criminal offenses, state park fees, fees & costs for certain firearm licenses, & tax extensions.
Last Action: Died in Ways & Means Committee
Last Action Date: March 8, 2024
Title: Restrictions on Firearms and Ammunition During Emergencies
Description: Repeals provisions relating to specified automatic restrictions on firearms & ammunition during certain declared emergencies.
Last Action: Died in Rules
Last Action Date: March 8, 2024
Title: Carrying and Possession of Weapons and Firearms
Description: Prohibits carrying of concealed handgun or unconcealed firearm without license & possession of such handgun or firearm without valid identification; repeals provisions relating to arrests without warrant & exemption from licensing requirements for law enforcement officers; allows open carrying of any otherwise legal firearm or electric weapon or device; revises list of places into which person may not carry handgun or concealed weapon or concealed firearm; provides exceptions; deletes provisions relating to open carry, collection of fees for licenses to carry concealed weapons or concealed firearms, allowing school districts to restrict possession of firearm in vehicle, exceptions to statutory protections of right to keep & bear arms in motor vehicles, temporary ex parte risk protection orders, & eliminating liability for acts or omissions related to obtaining certain risk protection orders; provides indigent person right to counsel in risk protection proceedings; authorizes, rather than requires, court to issue risk protection order in certain circumstances; revises factors to be considered in determining whether to grant risk protection order; revises definition of "bump-fire stock."
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: March 8, 2024
Title: Risk Protection Orders
Description: Requires law enforcement officers taking custody of person for involuntary examination to seize firearms & ammunition from that person if certain criteria are met; requires law enforcement officers to request voluntary surrender of person's firearms or ammunition not already seized by law enforcement; requires law enforcement officers to petition court for risk protection order under certain circumstances after taking custody of person for involuntary examination.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: March 8, 2024
Title: Florida Statutes
Description: Deletes provisions that have expired, have become obsolete, have served their purpose, or have been impliedly repealed or superseded; replaces incorrect cross-references & citations; corrects grammatical, typographical, & like errors; removes inconsistencies, redundancies, & unnecessary repetition in statutes; & improves clarity of statutes & facilitating their correct interpretation.
Last Action: Laid on Table, refer to SB 74
Last Action Date: January 17, 2024
Title: Assault Weapons and Large-capacity Magazines
Description: Prohibiting the sale or transfer of an assault weapon or a large-capacity magazine; prohibiting possession of an assault weapon or a large-capacity magazine; specifying requirements for an applicant who fails to qualify for a certificate of possession; providing enhanced criminal penalties for certain offenses when committed with an assault weapon or a large-capacity magazine, etc.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice
Last Action Date: March 8, 2024
Title: Sale, Transfer, and Storage of Firearms
Description: Revising the standard by which adults and minors are considered criminally negligent in the storage of a firearm under specified circumstances; providing criminal penalties; revising an exception to the prohibition on storing or leaving a loaded firearm within the reach or easy access of a minor who obtains it and commits a specified violation; revising requirements for the safe storage of loaded firearms; providing criminal penalties if a person is found to have failed to properly secure or store a firearm, resulting in a minor gaining access to the weapon, etc.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice
Last Action Date: March 8, 2024
Title: Public Records/Buyer or Transferee of Ammunition
Description: Providing an exemption from public records requirements for records containing certain information pertaining to a buyer or transferee who is not found to be prohibited from receipt or transfer of ammunition; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing for the reversion of specified statutory text unless certain conditions are met; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice
Last Action Date: March 8, 2024
Title: Lethal Projectiles Over or Across Private Lands
Description: Prohibiting a person from willfully and knowingly propelling any potentially lethal projectile over or across private lands without authorization, etc.
Last Action: Died in Rules
Last Action Date: March 8, 2024
Title: Weapons and Firearms
Description: Citing this act as the "Responsible Gun Ownership Act"; requiring background checks on all persons involved in a firearm sale or other transfer; requiring firearm sales or other transfers between unlicensed persons to be conducted through, and processed by, a licensed dealer; specifying requirements for firearm sales or transfers through licensed dealers; providing criminal penalties; prohibiting licensed dealers from selling firearms without trigger locks or gun cases; providing exceptions; providing definitions; prohibiting certain actions leading to the manufacture or assembly, sale, or transfer of a firearm not imprinted with a valid serial number, etc.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice
Last Action Date: March 8, 2024
Title: Taking of Bears
Description: Citing this act as the "Self Defense Act"; providing for the taking of bears without certain penalties under specified conditions; requiring the disposal of such bears by the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission; prohibiting certain possession, sale, and disposal of such bears or their parts, etc.
Last Action: Laid on Table, refer to CS/HB 87
Last Action Date: February 21, 2024
Title: Public Safety
Description: Revising a prohibition on making threats to conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism to include audio and video telephone calls; prohibiting planning to conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism; defining the term "plan to conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism"; specifying what constitutes a plan to conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism; providing criminal penalties, etc.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice
Last Action Date: March 8, 2024
Title: Interpersonal Violence Injunction Petitions
Description: Revising a requirement that petitions for injunction for protection against domestic violence, repeat violence, sexual violence, or dating violence, and stalking, respectively, be verified, rather than sworn to; revising the form for such petitions for injunction to require a person to verify, rather than swear to, certain statements; requiring the clerk of the court to include an injunction in the Driver and Vehicle Information Database, etc.
Last Action: Laid on Table, refer to CS/HB 761
Last Action Date: March 4, 2024
Title: Firearms
Description: Revising the definition of the term "machine gun"; ranking an offense on level 5 of the offense severity ranking chart of the Criminal Punishment Code, etc.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice
Last Action Date: March 8, 2024
Title: Drive-by Shootings
Description: Citing this act as the "Laderius Clardy Act"; creating the offense of drive-by shooting as a felony of the second degree; providing criminal penalties for committing the offense of drive-by shooting; specifying that committing the offense of drive-by shooting in furtherance of certain objectives is a crime of terrorism, etc.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice
Last Action Date: March 8, 2024
Title: Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
Description: Preempting the regulation of electric vehicle charging stations to the state; prohibiting local governmental entities from enacting or enforcing such regulations; providing that a pest control operator's certificate, a special identification card, and certain limited certifications for pesticide applicators, respectively, expire a specified length of time after issuance; authorizing the department to take disciplinary action against a person who swears to or affirms a false statement on certain applications, cheats on a required examination, or violates certain procedures under certain circumstances; authorizing Class "G" licensees to qualify for multiple calibers of firearms in one requalification class under certain circumstances; prohibiting the manufacture for sale, sale, holding or offering for sale, or distribution of cultivated meat in this state, etc.
Last Action: Chapter No. 2024-137
Last Action Date: May 2, 2024
Title: Safe Storage of Firearms and Ammunition Within Motor Vehicles and Vessels
Description: Defining the terms "motor vehicle," "trunk," and "vessel"; requiring persons who store or leave firearms or ammunition in motor vehicles or vessels under their control to keep the firearms or ammunition locked within specified locations within the motor vehicles or vessels, etc.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice
Last Action Date: March 8, 2024
Title: Safe Storage of Firearms
Description: Revising provisions related to the requirements for the safe storage of firearms; increasing the criminal penalties related to such safe storage provisions; providing criminal penalties for the failure to store or leave firearms in the required manner under specified circumstances; providing criminal penalties for the unsafe storing or leaving of a firearm in a conveyance under specified circumstances, etc.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice
Last Action Date: March 8, 2024
Title: Risk Protection Orders
Description: Requiring, rather than authorizing, law enforcement officers taking custody of a person for involuntary examination to seize firearms and ammunition from that person if certain criteria are met; requiring law enforcement officers to request the voluntary surrender of a person's firearms or ammunition not already seized by law enforcement; requiring, rather than authorizing, law enforcement officers to petition the appropriate courts for a risk protection order under certain circumstances after taking custody of a person for involuntary examination, etc.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice
Last Action Date: March 8, 2024
Title: Enhanced Firearms Training Facilities
Description: Exempting from local government specified restrictions for the location of licensed enhanced firearms training facilities; authorizing an enhanced firearms training facility to provide training and certification to the guardian program, etc.
Last Action: Died in Community Affairs
Last Action Date: March 8, 2024
Title: Taxes, Fines, and Fees
Description: Deleting a provision allowing the indigent care and trauma center surtax to be levied without a majority vote of electors; restoring provisions relating to the payment of funds collected by a county officer into the State Treasury; eliminating fees for original, renewal, and replacement driver licenses and identification cards, certain driver license endorsements, reinstatement of driver licenses, and certain requests for review or hearing; revising a specified assessment on citrus, etc.
Last Action: Died in Transportation
Last Action Date: March 8, 2024
