Proposed Maryland Firearm Legislation HB294
Legislation Overview
Title: Firearm Safety Act of 2013
Subject: Public Safety: Commerce and Business: Crimes and Punishments: Criminal Background Investigations: Dealers: Federal Government: Fees: Guns: Health and Mental Hygiene, Department of: Hearings: Law Enforcement: Licenses: Mental Health: Penalties and Sentences: Public Information: Records: Registration: State Police, Department of: Violence: Weapons
Description: Altering the authorization for a person to wear, carry, or transport a handgun to be within specified limitations; designating specified firearms as assault weapons; prohibiting, with specified exceptions, a person from transporting an assault weapon into the State or possessing, selling, offering to sell, transferring, purchasing, or receiving an assault weapon; authorizing specified licensed firearms dealers to continue to possess, sell, offer for sale, or transfer specified assault weapons under specified circumstances; etc.
Session: 2013 Regular Session
Last Action: Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m. (Health and Government Operations)
Last Action Date: March 1, 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'.
38 sponsors: The Speaker;Anderson;Arora; Barkley; Bobo; Cardin; Carr; Clippinger; Cullison; Dumais; Feldman; Frick;Gilchrist; Gutierrez;Guzzone; Haynes; Hubbard; Hucker; Kaiser; A. Kelly;Kramer;Lafferty; Lee;Luedtke; Mitchell;Murphy;Pena-Melnyk; Reznik; S. Robinson;Rosenberg; Simmons;Stein; Summers; Tarrant; Valderrama;Valentino-Smith; Walker;Zucker;
Percentage of House Of Delegates sponsoring bill: 27% (38 of 141)
History
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| House | Mar 1, 2013 | Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m. (Judiciary) |
| House | Mar 1, 2013 | Hearing 3/01 at 12:00 p.m. (Judiciary) |
| House | Mar 1, 2013 | Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m. (Health and Government Operations) |
| House | Feb 27, 2013 | Hearing cancelled (Health and Government Operations) |
| House | Feb 26, 2013 | Hearing cancelled (Judiciary) |
| House | Jan 23, 2013 | First Reading Judiciary and Health and Government Operations |
Texts
| Type | Date | State Link | Text |
| Introduced | Jan 23, 2013 | 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
