38 total bills, 24 anti-gun bills,
6 pro-gun bills for this session
Proposed Florida Firearm Legislation
38 total bills, 24 anti-gun bills,
6 pro-gun bills for this session
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Title: Firearm Restrictions Pursuant to Court Findings or Risk Protection Orders
Description: Requires certain orders affecting person's ability to purchase firearm be entered into a specified database within specified period; prohibits attempted violations of provisions of firearms risk protection order.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice & Public Safety Subcommittee
Last Action Date: March 14, 2022
Title: Use or Threatened Use of Force
Description: Removes provisions stating 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; 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 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 & Public Safety Subcommittee
Last Action Date: March 14, 2022
Title: Criminal Rehabilitation
Description: Specifies to rehabilitate offender to transition back to community successfully is one of primary purposes of sentencing; reduces minimum sentence that must be served by defendant from 85 percent of sentence to 65 percent; revises provisions concerning gain time to provide for outstanding deed gain-time, good behavior time, & rehabilitation credits; revises limits on awards.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice & Public Safety Subcommittee
Last Action Date: March 14, 2022
Title: Sales of Ammunition
Description: Requires background checks for sale or transfer of ammunition.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice & Public Safety Subcommittee
Last Action Date: March 14, 2022
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 & Public Safety Subcommittee
Last Action Date: March 14, 2022
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 & Public Safety Subcommittee
Last Action Date: March 14, 2022
Title: Sale, Transfer, or Storage of Firearms
Description: Revises standard for adults & minors to be considered criminally negligent in storage of firearm; redefining term "minor"; revises exception to prohibition on storing or leaving loaded firearm within reach or easy access of minor who obtains it & commits specified violation; revises requirements for safe storage of loaded firearms; provides criminal penalties if person fails to properly secure or store firearm & minor gains access to weapon as result; requires seller or transferor of firearm to provide each purchaser or transferee with specified information; provides immunity for certain providers of information.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice & Public Safety Subcommittee
Last Action Date: March 14, 2022
Title: Unfinished Firearms
Description: Prohibits specified acts involving unfinished firearm frames or receivers; provides exceptions.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice & Public Safety Subcommittee
Last Action Date: March 14, 2022
Title: Storage of Firearms by Licensed Importers, Manufacturers, and Dealers
Description: Provides firearm storage requirements for licensed importers, licensed manufacturers, & licensed dealers; authorizes inspections by DACS.
Last Action: Died in Regulatory Reform Subcommittee
Last Action Date: March 14, 2022
Title: Criminal Justice
Description: Removes provisions relating to operating budget of municipal law enforcement agency; revises prohibition on obstructing traffic by standing on street; prohibits persons from willfully obstructing public streets in order to solicit; removes provisions providing municipality has duty to allow law enforcement agency to respond to riot or unlawful assembly in specified manner; removes provisions providing municipality is civilly liable for specified damages proximately caused by municipality's breach of such duty; removes criminal penalty for assault committed in furtherance of riot or aggravated riot; removes criminal penalty for battery committed in furtherance of riot or aggravated riot; removes provision relating to destroying or demolishing memorial or historic property; removes provisions reclassifying specified burglary offenses committed during riot or aggravated riot & facilitated by conditions arising from riot; removes provision requiring person arrested for such violation to be held in custody until first appearance.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice & Public Safety Subcommittee
Last Action Date: March 14, 2022
Title: Mental Health and Substance Abuse
Description: Revises & provides terminology & requirements relating to petitions & procedures for voluntary & involuntary admissions, examinations, & treatment under Baker Act & Marchman Act; provides appropriation.
Last Action: Died in Health & Human Services Committee
Last Action Date: March 14, 2022
Title: Allow Persons Prescribed Medical Marijuana to Purchase Firearms
Description: Urges Congress to revise federal firearms laws to allow persons who are prescribed medical marijuana to be permitted to purchase firearms.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice & Public Safety Subcommittee
Last Action Date: March 14, 2022
Title: Lauderhill Gun Violence Reduction
Description: Provides an appropriation for the Lauderhill Gun Violence Reduction.
Last Action: See HB 5001 (line item 1248)
Last Action Date: March 14, 2022
Title: Licenses to Carry Concealed Weapons or Firearms
Description: Removes provision prohibiting concealed carry licensees from openly carrying handgun or carrying concealed weapon or firearm into college or university facility.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice & Public Safety Subcommittee
Last Action Date: March 14, 2022
Title: Removing Firearm Regulations
Description: Removes provisions authorizing seizure of firearms from persons in certain circumstances, prohibition on firearms ownership or possession until removal of firearm possession & firearm ownership disability, prohibition on persons younger than 21 years of age from purchasing firearms, certain exemptions from firearms purchase waiting period, ban on bump-fire stock, & statute authorizing risk protection orders.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice & Public Safety Subcommittee
Last Action Date: March 14, 2022
Title: Preemption of Firearms and Ammunition
Description: Repeals provisions preempting the field of regulation of firearms & ammunition to Legislature, to exclusion of local jurisdictions.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice & Public Safety Subcommittee
Last Action Date: March 14, 2022
Title: Death Penalty
Description: Repeals provisions providing for death penalty for capital felonies and associated provisions.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice & Public Safety Subcommittee
Last Action Date: March 14, 2022
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 Pandemics & Public Emergencies Committee
Last Action Date: March 14, 2022
Title: Carrying a Concealed Weapon or Firearm in a Legislative Meeting
Description: Removes prohibition on carrying of concealed weapons or firearms in legislative meetings by holders of licenses to carry such weapons or firearms.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice & Public Safety Subcommittee
Last Action Date: March 14, 2022
Title: Preemption to the State
Description: Removes & repeals provisions preempting certain authority to state.
Last Action: Died in Local Administration & Veterans Affairs Subcommittee
Last Action Date: March 14, 2022
Title: Use of Deadly Force in Defense of a Person
Description: Repeals provisions relating to home protection & use of deadly force, which creates presumption of fear of death or great bodily harm in certain circumstances & provides that person has no duty to retreat & has right to stand his or her ground & meet force with force in certain circumstances.
Last Action: Died in Criminal Justice & Public Safety Subcommittee
Last Action Date: March 14, 2022
Title: Sale and Delivery of Firearms
Description: Requiring the parties, if neither party to a sale, lease, or other transfer of a firearm is a licensed dealer, to complete the sale, lease, or other transfer through a licensed dealer; specifying procedures and requirements for a licensed dealer, seller, lessor, or transferor and a buyer or transferee; authorizing a licensed dealer to charge a buyer or transferee specified fees; deleting provisions exempting a licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, or licensed dealer from the sale and delivery requirements under certain circumstances, etc.
Last Action: Died in Judiciary
Last Action Date: March 14, 2022
Title: Prohibited Recordkeeping Relating to Firearms or Firearm Owners
Description: Repealing provisions relating to the prohibition of registration of firearms and the treatment of certain electronic records; repealing provisions relating to lists, records, or registries required to be destroyed, etc.
Last Action: Died in Judiciary
Last Action Date: March 14, 2022
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; requiring certificates of possession for assault weapons or large-capacity magazines lawfully possessed before a specified date; providing conditions for continued possession of such weapons or large-capacity magazines; specifying circumstances in which the manufacture or transportation of assault weapons or large-capacity magazines is not prohibited, etc.
Last Action: Died in Judiciary
Last Action Date: March 14, 2022
Title: Safe Storage of Loaded Firearms
Description: Revising requirements for the storage or leaving of a loaded firearm by a person on a premise under his or her control under certain circumstances involving a minor; revising the circumstances under which such person commits a specified violation, etc.
Last Action: Died in Judiciary
Last Action Date: March 14, 2022
Title: Sale or Transfer of Ammunition
Description: Citing this act as "Jaime's Law"; requiring background checks for the sale or transfer of ammunition; providing exceptions, etc.
Last Action: Died in Judiciary
Last Action Date: March 14, 2022
Title: Firearms
Description: Requiring the Department of Law Enforcement, within a specified timeframe, to enter into the Florida Crime Information Center database certain orders affecting a person's ability to purchase a firearm; prohibiting attempted violations of the provisions of a firearms risk protection order; providing criminal penalties, etc.
Last Action: Died in Judiciary
Last Action Date: March 14, 2022
Title: United States Space Force
Description: Revising the definition of the term "uniformed service" to include the United States Space Force; revising the Armed Forces officers authorized to take or administer specified oaths, affidavits, or acknowledgements to include United States Space Force officers; revising the military service branches for which any county or state official who is called to active service may receive a leave of absence; updating military base names; adding post exchanges operated by the United States Space Force to those that are exempt from paying tax on cigarettes sold; revising the armed forces uniforms that are protected from imitation to include uniforms of the United States Space Force, etc.
Last Action: Chapter No. 2022-183
Last Action Date: June 10, 2022
Title: Secure Storage of Firearms
Description: Providing firearm storage requirements for licensed importers, licensed manufacturers, and licensed dealers under certain circumstances; authorizing agents or employees of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to perform inspections under certain circumstances; providing noncriminal penalties, etc.
Last Action: Died in Judiciary
Last Action Date: March 14, 2022
Title: Preemption of Firearms and Ammunition Regulation
Description: Repealing a provision relating to the preemption of the field of regulation of firearms and ammunition to the Legislature, to the exclusion of local jurisdictions, etc.
Last Action: Died in Judiciary
Last Action Date: March 14, 2022
Title: Firearms Without a Unique Serial Number or Identifying Mark
Description: Specifying requirements for persons manufacturing or assembling a firearm in this state, beginning on a specified date; requiring a person who owns a firearm without an assigned serial number or other identifying mark to comply with certain requirements on or after a specified date; prohibiting the sale or transfer of certain firearms; requiring the Department of Law Enforcement to accept applications from persons and grant unique serial numbers or identifying marks if certain conditions are met, etc.
Last Action: Died in Judiciary
Last Action Date: March 14, 2022
Title: Fees/Firearm Serial Number or Identifying Mark
Description: Authorizing the Department of Law Enforcement to charge a fee for each serial number or identifying mark it issues to reimburse itself for certain actual costs; requiring all moneys collected to be deposited into the Division of Licensing Trust Fund, etc.
Last Action: Died in Judiciary
Last Action Date: March 14, 2022
Title: Unfinished Firearms
Description: Prohibiting specified acts involving unfinished firearm frames or receivers; providing criminal penalties; defining the term "licensed dealer", etc.
Last Action: Died in Judiciary
Last Action Date: March 14, 2022
Title: Arrests
Description: Authorizing warrantless arrests when a law enforcement officer has probable cause to believe that a person younger than 18 years of age has violated a specified provision related to possession of a firearm by a minor younger than 18 years of age, etc.
Last Action: Died in Judiciary
Last Action Date: March 14, 2022
Title: Use or Threatened Use of Force
Description: Citing this act as the "Self-Defense Restoration Act"; deleting provisions stating that persons who use or threaten to use force, other than deadly force, do not have a duty to retreat before using or threatening to use such force in defense of persons or property; prohibiting the use of deadly force by a person who knows that he or she can avoid the necessity of using deadly force with complete safety by retreating; repealing a provision relating to immunity from criminal prosecution and civil action for justifiable use or threatened use of force, etc.
Last Action: Died in Judiciary
Last Action Date: March 14, 2022
Title: Private Investigative Services
Description: Exempting Class "CG" license applicants from an application fee; providing application requirements for Class "CG" licenses; exempting licensed agencies from certain fees relating to license revisions; revising requirements relating to certain licensees carrying firearms; specifying that Class "CG" licenses remain in effect only while the applicant is employed as a Class "C" or Class "CC" licensee; specifying when the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services may take disciplinary action against Class "CG" licensees, etc.
Last Action: Died in Judiciary
Last Action Date: March 14, 2022
Title: Criminal Justice
Description: Deleting provisions relating to allowing specified elected officials to file an appeal to the Administration Commission if the governing body of a municipality makes a specified reduction to the operating budget of the municipal law enforcement agency; deleting a criminal penalty for an assault committed in furtherance of a riot or an aggravated riot; repealing a provision relating to destroying or demolishing a memorial or historic property; deleting the definition of the term "conditions arising from the riot", etc.
Last Action: Died in Judiciary
Last Action Date: March 14, 2022
Title: Preemption to the State
Description: Removing provisions which preempt counties, municipalities, and other local governmental entities from enacting or adopting any limitation or restriction involving certain contributions and expenditures, or establishing contribution limits different than those established in the Florida Election Code; removing provisions which require counties and entities of local government to pay ad valorem taxes or fees under specified conditions on certain telecommunications facilities; removing provisions which require municipalities and other entities of local government to pay ad valorem taxes or fees under specified conditions on certain telecommunications facilities, etc.
Last Action: Died in Community Affairs
Last Action Date: March 14, 2022
