Proposed West Virginia Firearm Legislation HB4472
Legislation Overview
Title: Relating to the right to bear arms
Subject: Weapons
Description: The purpose of this bill is to make all future federal and local statutes, ordinances, laws, orders and rules concerning firearms, firearm accessories, ammunition and their accouterments invalid and unenforceable. The bill makes it a felony to attempt to enforce a federal or local statute, ordinance, law, order or rule concerning firearms, firearm accessories, ammunition and their accouterments that violate the state and federal constitutions. The bill makes legislative findings. The bill provides criminal penalties. The bill requires the Attorney General to defend citizens of West Virginia who are prosecuted by the United States Government for violation of a federal law relating to the manufacture, sale, transfer or possession of a firearm, a firearm accessory or ammunition. The bill provides for retroactivity. The bill provides that ex post facto laws are not created. This article is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
Session: 2014 Regular Session
Last Action: Motion to lay over motion to discharge committee adopted
Last Action Date: February 21, 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'.
7 sponsors: Michael Folk;Larry Faircloth;Larry D. Kump; Jim Butler;Eric L. Householder; Roy Cooper;Cindy Frich
Percentage of House Of Delegates sponsoring bill: 7% (7 of 100)
History
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| House | Feb 21, 2014 | Motion to lay over motion to discharge committee adopted |
| House | Feb 11, 2014 | Filed for introduction |
| House | Feb 11, 2014 | To Judiciary then Finance |
| House | Feb 11, 2014 | Introduced in House |
| House | Feb 11, 2014 | To House Judiciary |
Texts
| Type | Date | State Link | Text |
| Introduced | not available | 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
