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2024 SESSION
HB 454 Firearm/explosive material; carrying w/in Capitol Square or bldg. owned or leased by Commonwealth.
Introduced by: Katrina Callsen | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Carrying a firearm or explosive material within Capitol Square or building owned or leased by the Commonwealth; exemptions; public institutions of higher education; penalty. Limits the exemption from the prohibition on the carrying of any firearm or explosive material within any building owned or leased by the Commonwealth or agency thereof or any office where employees of the Commonwealth or any agency thereof are regularly present for the purpose of performing their official duties that currently applies to any property owned or operated by a public institution of higher education to instead apply to any individual within a building owned or operated by a public institution of higher education who possesses a weapon as part of such public institution of higher education's curriculum or activities or as part of any organization authorized by such public institution of higher education to conduct its programs or activities within such building, as such uses are approved through the law-enforcement or public safety unit of such institution. This bill is identical to SB 383.
FULL TEXT
- 01/08/24 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103011D pdf | impact statements
- 01/19/24 House: Committee substitute printed 24105639D-H1 pdf | impact statements
- 03/07/24 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB454ER) pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- Governor's veto explanation
HISTORY
- 01/08/24 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103011D
- 01/08/24 House: Referred to Committee on Public Safety
- 01/16/24 House: Assigned PS sub: Firearms
- 01/18/24 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 3-N)
- 01/18/24 House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/19/24 House: Reported from Public Safety with substitute (12-Y 9-N)
- 01/19/24 House: Committee substitute printed 24105639D-H1
- 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 (5-Y 3-N)
- 01/29/24 House: Reported from Appropriations (11-Y 10-N)
- 01/31/24 House: Read first time
- 02/01/24 House: Read second time
- 02/01/24 House: Committee substitute agreed to 24105639D-H1
- 02/01/24 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB454H1
- 02/02/24 House: Read third time and passed House (51-Y 48-N)
- 02/02/24 House: VOTE: Passage (51-Y 48-N)
- 02/05/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/05/24 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/14/24 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (6-Y 5-N)
- 02/14/24 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/28/24 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N)
- 02/29/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 03/01/24 Senate: Read third time
- 03/01/24 Senate: Passed Senate (21-Y 19-N)
- 03/07/24 House: Enrolled
- 03/07/24 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB454ER)
- 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