Proposed Maryland Firearm Legislation SB479
Legislation Overview
Title: Public Safety - Access to Firearms - Storage Requirements (Jaelynn's Law)
Subject: Public Safety: Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes: Crimes and Punishments: Guns: Minors: Penalties and Sentences: Storage
Description: Altering a certain prohibition to prohibit a person from storing or leaving a firearm in a location where a minor could gain access to the firearm; altering a certain exception to the prohibition; establishing certain exceptions to the prohibition; prohibiting a person from storing or leaving a firearm in a location where an unsupervised minor could gain access to the firearm and an unsupervised minor does gain access to the firearm and the firearm causes harm to the minor or another person; establishing certain penalties; etc.
Session: 2021 Regular Session
Last Action: Hearing 2/11 at 11:00 a.m.
Last Action Date: January 27, 2021
Sponsors
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1 sponsors: William Smith (D);
Percentage of Senate sponsoring bill: 2% (1 of 47)
History
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| Senate | Jan 27, 2021 | Hearing canceled |
| Senate | Jan 27, 2021 | Hearing 2/11 at 11:00 a.m. |
| Senate | Jan 25, 2021 | Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m. |
| Senate | Jan 20, 2021 | First Reading Judicial Proceedings |
Texts
| Type | Date | State Link | Text |
| Introduced | Jan 21, 2021 | 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
