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2024 SESSION
HB 2 Assault firearms & certain ammunition, etc.; purchase, possession, sale, transfer, etc., prohibited.
Introduced by: Dan I. Helmer | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Purchase, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices prohibited; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, or transfers an assault firearm, as that term is defined in the bill, and prohibits a person who has been convicted of such violation from purchasing, possessing, or transporting a firearm for a period of three years from the date of conviction. The bill provides that an assault firearm does not include any firearm that is an antique firearm, has been rendered permanently inoperable, is manually operated by bolt, pump, lever, or slide action, or was manufactured before July 1, 2024. The bill also prohibits the sale of a large capacity ammunition feeding device, as that term is defined in the bill. The bill provides that any person who willfully and intentionally (i) sells an assault firearm to another person or (ii) purchases an assault firearm from another person is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor and that any person who imports, sells, barters, or transfers a large capacity ammunition feeding device is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill also makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person younger than 21 years of age to import, sell, manufacture, purchase, possess, transport, or transfer an assault firearm regardless of the date of manufacture of such assault firearm. This bill is identical to SB 2.
FULL TEXT
- 11/20/23 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101034D pdf | impact statements
- 01/29/24 House: Committee substitute printed 24105958D-H1 pdf | impact statements
- 02/19/24 Senate: Committee substitute printed 24107889D-S1 pdf | impact statements
- 03/07/24 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2ER) pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- Governor's veto explanation
HISTORY
- 11/20/23 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101034D
- 11/20/23 House: Referred to Committee on Public Safety
- 01/13/24 House: Assigned PS sub: Firearms
- 01/18/24 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 4-N)
- 01/18/24 House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/19/24 House: Reported from Public Safety (11-Y 9-N)
- 01/19/24 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/21/24 House: Assigned App. sub: Transportation & Public Safety
- 01/24/24 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 3-N)
- 01/29/24 House: Reported from Appropriations with substitute (11-Y 10-N)
- 01/29/24 House: Committee substitute printed 24105958D-H1
- 01/31/24 House: Read first time
- 02/01/24 House: Read second time
- 02/01/24 House: Committee substitute agreed to 24105958D-H1
- 02/01/24 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2H1
- 02/02/24 House: Read third time and passed House (51-Y 49-N)
- 02/02/24 House: VOTE: Passage (51-Y 49-N)
- 02/05/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/05/24 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/19/24 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (8-Y 4-N)
- 02/19/24 Senate: Committee substitute printed 24107889D-S1
- 02/19/24 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/27/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/27/24 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N)
- 02/28/24 Senate: Read third time
- 02/28/24 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/28/24 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 24107889D-S1
- 02/28/24 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB2S1
- 02/28/24 Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (20-Y 19-N)
- 03/01/24 House: Senate substitute agreed to by House 24107889D-S1 (50-Y 47-N)
- 03/01/24 House: VOTE: Adoption (50-Y 47-N)
- 03/07/24 House: Enrolled
- 03/07/24 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2ER)
- 03/07/24 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/08/24 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/24 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024
- 03/11/24 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
- 03/26/24 Governor: Vetoed by Governor
- 04/17/24 House: House sustained Governor's veto