Proposed Maryland Firearm Legislation HB704
Legislation Overview
Title: Firearms – Tracking Technology
Subject: Public Safety: Data: Electronic Surveillance: Fines: Guns: Rules and Regulations: State Police, Department of: Transfer of Goods
Description: Prohibiting a person from engaging in a certain bulk firearm transfer unless each firearm that is part of the transfer contains a certain embedded tracker; requiring a seller or other transferor who engages in a bulk firearm transfer to transmit to the Secretary of State Police certain information; providing that a violation of the Act is a civil offense and subject to a fine of up to $2500; and requiring the Secretary to establish a certain database to store information about each bulk firearm transfer in the State.
Session: 2023 Regular Session
Last Action: Hearing 3/08 at 1:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: February 13, 2023
Sponsors
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1 sponsors: Pamela Queen (D);
Percentage of House Of Delegates sponsoring bill: 1% (1 of 141)
History
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| House | Feb 13, 2023 | Hearing canceled |
| House | Feb 13, 2023 | Hearing 3/08 at 1:00 p.m. |
| House | Feb 8, 2023 | Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m. |
| House | Feb 6, 2023 | First Reading Judiciary |
Texts
| Type | Date | State Link | Text |
| Introduced | Feb 7, 2023 | 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
