Firearm Legislation Awaiting Governor's Signature Or Veto
These are state level fiream related bills that are awaiting a signature or veto by the governor of that state.
Title: Elmore Co., sheriff, authorized to sell firearms to gun dealers with active business license for one year, Act 2007-325, 2007 Reg Sess., am'd, Sec. 45-26-231.02 am'd.
Description: Elmore Co., sheriff, authorized to sell firearms to gun dealers with active business license for one year, Act 2007-325, 2007 Reg Sess., am'd, Sec. 45-26-231.02 am'd.
Last Action: Delivered to Governor at 7:17 p.m. on May 7, 2020
Last Action Date: May 7, 2020
Title: An Act For The Department Of Public Safety Appropriation For The 2020-2021 Fiscal Year.
Description: An Act For The Department Of Public Safety Appropriation For The 2020-2021 Fiscal Year.
Last Action: Notification that HB1093 is now Act 97
Last Action Date: April 20, 2020
Title: Firearms: unsafe handguns.
Description: An act to amend Sections 11106, 25555, 26379, 28230, and 32000 of the Penal Code, relating to firearms.
Last Action: Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
Last Action Date: September 15, 2020
Title: Mental health workers: supervision.
Description: An act to add Section 5848.7 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to mental health.
Last Action: Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
Last Action Date: September 14, 2020
Title: Firearms: unsafe handguns.
Description: An act to amend Section 31910 of the Penal Code, relating to firearms.
Last Action: Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
Last Action Date: September 11, 2020
Title: Personal income taxes: qualified employer plan: loans: CARES Act.
Description: An act to amend Section 17085 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, relating to taxation, to take effect immediately, tax levy.
Last Action: Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 62, Statutes of 2020.
Last Action Date: September 11, 2020
Title: Invasion of privacy: first responders.
Description: An act to amend Section 1524 of, and to add Section 647.9 to, the Penal Code, relating to crimes.
Last Action: Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
Last Action Date: September 11, 2020
Title: Firearms: gun violence restraining orders.
Description: An act to amend Sections 18140 and 18205 of the Penal Code, relating to firearms.
Last Action: Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
Last Action Date: September 11, 2020
Title: Firearms: prohibited persons.
Description: An act to amend Sections 29800 and 29805 of, and to repeal Section 29851 of, the Penal Code, relating to firearms.
Last Action: Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
Last Action Date: September 9, 2020
Title: Firearms.
Description: An act to amend Sections 27505, 28210, 28215, 28220, 28230, 29615, 30370, and 30470 of, to add Section 16685 to, and to repeal and add Section 27945 of, the Penal Code, relating to firearms.
Last Action: Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
Last Action Date: September 8, 2020
Title: Firearms: inspections.
Description: An act to amend Sections 27310 and 30345 of the Penal Code, relating to firearms.
Last Action: Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
Last Action Date: September 4, 2020
Title: Public safety.
Description: An act to amend Sections 4021.5, 4187.2, and 4187.5 of the Business and Professions Code, to add Section 66024.5 to the Education Code, to amend Sections 15402, 15420, 15421, 15422, and 15819.403 of, and to repeal Section 15403 of, the Government Code, to amend Sections 290.5, 851.93, 977.2, 1170, 1203.425, 11105, 16532, 18010, 30400, 30405, 30406, 30412, 30414, 30442, 30445, 30447, 30448, 30450, 30452, 30454, 30456, 30470, 30485, 30515, 30900, and 30955 of, to add Sections 3000.01, 5003.7, and 30685 to, and to repeal Article 5 (commencing with Section 2985) of Chapter 7 of Title 1 of Part 3 of, the Penal Code, and to amend Section 1731.7 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to public safety, and making an appropriation therefor, to take effect immediately, bill related to the budget.
Last Action: Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 29, Statutes of 2020.
Last Action Date: August 6, 2020
Title: A bill for an act relating to firearms and weapons, including the storage, carrying, possession, or transportation of weapons and the establishment, use, and maintenance of shooting ranges.
Description: A bill for an act relating to firearms and weapons, including the storage, carrying, possession, or transportation of weapons and the establishment, use, and maintenance of shooting ranges.
Last Action: Committee report, recommending amendment and passage. H.J. 328.
Last Action Date: February 21, 2020
Title: Amends existing law to make codifier's corrections.
Description: CODIFIER'S CORRECTIONS -- Amends existing law to make codifier's corrections.
Last Action: Session Law Chapter 82 Effective: 07/01/2020
Last Action Date: March 10, 2020
Title: Enacting the governmental response to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in Kansas and providing certain relief related to health, welfare, property and economic security during this public health emergency.
Description: Enacting the governmental response to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in Kansas and providing certain relief related to health, welfare, property and economic security during this public health emergency.
Last Action: House Approved by Governor on Monday, June 8, 2020
Last Action Date: June 4, 2020
Title: Provides relative to the authority to regulate the manufacture, possession, or sale of firearms or ammunition during a declared emergency or disaster or public health emergency
Description: Provides relative to the authority to regulate the manufacture, possession, or sale of firearms or ammunition during a declared emergency or disaster or public health emergency
Last Action: Effective date: 08/01/2020.
Last Action Date: June 12, 2020
Title: Provides an exception to the illegal carrying of weapons for certain persons who carry a concealed firearm during a mandatory evacuation
Description: Provides an exception to the illegal carrying of weapons for certain persons who carry a concealed firearm during a mandatory evacuation
Last Action: Effective date: 08/01/2020.
Last Action Date: June 12, 2020
Title: Intent required for repeated harassing conduct crime.
Description: Intent required for repeated harassing conduct crime.
Last Action: Secretary of State Chapter 96
Last Action Date: May 18, 2020
Title: Permits 4-H certified shooting sports instructors to supervise and instruct persons under sixteen years of age at shooting ranges.
Description: Permits 4-H certified shooting sports instructors to supervise and instruct persons under sixteen years of age at shooting ranges.
Last Action: signed chap.150
Last Action Date: August 24, 2020
Title: Revise the authority of the Governor in times of a disaster, act of terrorism, or emergency and to declare an emergency.
Description: Revise the authority of the Governor in times of a disaster, act of terrorism, or emergency and to declare an emergency.
Last Action: Delivered to the Governor on March 31, 2020 H.J. 660
Last Action Date: March 30, 2020
Title: Concealed handgun permits; demonstration of competence, effective date.
Description: Concealed handgun permits; demonstration of competence. Removes the option for concealed handgun permit applicants to demonstrate competence with a handgun by completing an electronic, video, or online course conducted by a state-certified or National Rifle Association-certified firearms instructor. The bill does not affect any in-person means of satisfying the requirement to demonstrate competence with a handgun under current law. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2021.
Last Action: Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1130)
Last Action Date: April 10, 2020
Title: Firearms or other weapons; unauthorized to possess on school property.
Description: Firearms or other weapons on school property. Provides that no school board may authorize or designate any person to possess a firearm on school property other than those persons expressly authorized by statute. The bill also clarifies that no exemption exists for a special conservator of the peace to possess a firearm or other weapon on school property.
Last Action: Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1037)
Last Action Date: April 10, 2020
Title: Unrestorably incompetent defendant; competency report.
Description: Unrestorably incompetent defendant; competency report. Provides that in cases where a defendant is likely to remain incompetent for the foreseeable future due to an ongoing and irreversible medical condition and prior medical or educational records are available to support the diagnosis, a competency report may recommend that the court find the defendant unrestorably incompetent to stand trial, and the court may proceed with the disposition of the case based on such recommendation. Under current law, the defendant is required to undergo treatment to restore his competency before the court can find a defendant unrestorably incompetent to stand trial. The bill also provides that such person who is found unrestorably incompetent to stand trial shall be prohibited from purchasing, possessing, or transporting a firearm.
Last Action: Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1121)
Last Action Date: April 10, 2020
Title: Virginia Gun Violence Intervention and Prevention Fund; created.
Description: Virginia Gun Violence Intervention and Prevention Fund. Establishes the Virginia Gun Violence Intervention and Prevention Fund to be administered by the Department of Criminal Justice Services for the purpose of supporting gun violence intervention and prevention programs, including street outreach, hospital-based violence intervention, and group violence intervention programs.
Last Action: Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1129)
Last Action Date: April 10, 2020
Title: Creating the Washington office of firearm violence prevention.
Description: Creating the Washington office of firearm violence prevention.
Last Action: Effective date 6/11/2020.
Last Action Date: April 2, 2020
Title: Monitoring of domestic violence perpetrators.
Description: Monitoring of domestic violence perpetrators.
Last Action: Effective date 6/11/2020.
Last Action Date: April 2, 2020
Title: Concerning the involuntary treatment act.
Description: Concerning the involuntary treatment act.
Last Action: Effective date 6/11/2020**.
Last Action Date: April 2, 2020
Title: Restricting possession of weapons in certain locations.
Description: Restricting possession of weapons in certain locations.
Last Action: Effective date 6/11/2020.
Last Action Date: March 27, 2020
Title: Dividing the state wildlife account into the fish, wildlife, and conservation account and the limited fish and wildlife account.
Description: Dividing the state wildlife account into the fish, wildlife, and conservation account and the limited fish and wildlife account.
Last Action: Effective date 7/1/2021.
Last Action Date: March 25, 2020
Title: Establishing a centralized single point of contact background check system for firearms transfers.
Description: Establishing a centralized single point of contact background check system for firearms transfers.
Last Action: Effective date 6/11/2020.
Last Action Date: March 18, 2020
Title: Concerning background check requirements for firearms classified as other under federal firearms laws.
Description: Concerning background check requirements for firearms classified as other under federal firearms laws.
Last Action: Effective date 6/11/2020.
Last Action Date: March 18, 2020
Title: Concerning domestic violence.
Description: Concerning domestic violence.
Last Action: Effective date 3/18/2020.
Last Action Date: March 18, 2020
Title: Local regulation of honorary firearm discharges.
Description: An Act to renumber and amend 66.0409 (3) (b); and to create 66.0409 (3) (b) 3. of the statutes; Relating to: local regulation of honorary firearm discharges.
Last Action: Published 3-4-2020
Last Action Date: March 4, 2020
Title: Going armed with an electric weapon by private security personnel.
Description: An Act to amend 941.295 (2) (d) 1.; and to create 941.295 (2g) (c) of the statutes; Relating to: going armed with an electric weapon by private security personnel.
Last Action: Published 2-6-2020
Last Action Date: February 6, 2020
