Proposed Illinois Firearm Legislation HB6004
Legislation Overview
Title: STATES ATT&ASSISTANT-FIREARMS
Description: Amends the Peace Officer Firearm Training Act. Includes in the definition of "peace officer" any sworn State's Attorney or authorized Assistant State's Attorney, except that any person who is deemed a peace officer solely by virtue of his or her employment as a State's Attorney or Assistant State's Attorney shall not be authorized to make arrests for offenses. Amends the Firearm Concealed Carry Act. Provides that notwithstanding the provisions prohibiting a licensee from carrying a firearm into certain places, except those places where firearms are prohibited by federal law and property used by a nuclear energy, storage, weapons, or development site or facility regulated by the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a licensee who is a State's Attorney prohibited from carrying a concealed firearm into an area of a prohibited location shall be permitted to carry a concealed firearm on or about his or her person if he or she has completed the required training to be qualified to carry a firearm as a peace officer, notwithstanding that he or she is not otherwise certified as a sworn peace officer. Exempts from the firearm training requirements, a sworn State's Attorney or Assistant State's Attorney authorized by the State's Attorney, who has completed the required training to be qualified to carry a firearm as a peace officer. Effective immediately.
Session: 98th General Assembly
Last Action: Referred to Rules Committee
Last Action Date: February 19, 2014
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'.
1 sponsors: John E. Bradley;
Percentage of House Of Representatives sponsoring bill: 1% (1 of 118)
History
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| House | Feb 19, 2014 | Filed with the Clerk by Rep. John E. Bradley |
| House | Feb 19, 2014 | First Reading |
| House | Feb 19, 2014 | Referred to Rules Committee |
Texts
| Type | Date | State Link | Text |
| Introduced | Feb 19, 2014 | 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
