House Bill 3511
Modifies firearm permit application and issuance process.
2-28 (H)
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.
3-3 (H)
Referred to Judiciary.
6-25 (H)
In committee upon adjournment.
Overview
- Modifies firearm permit application and issuance process.
Key provisions
- Modifies firearm permit application and issuance process.
- Provides that permit agent is Department of Transportation and modifies qualifications to obtain permit.
- Directs Department of State Police to annually perform criminal background check on permit holders and to contract with entity to perform equity analysis on changes to permit system.
- Provides that verification of permit eliminates criminal background check requirement at time of firearm transfer.
- Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Penalties / enforcement
- No new criminal penalties described in the OLIS summary.
Effective date / timeline
- Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Exceptions / carve-outs
- No specific exceptions noted in the OLIS summary.
- House Bill 2005Enacted
Defines "undetectable firearm." Punishes manufacturing, importing, offering for sale or transferring undetectable firearm by maximum of 10 years' imprisonment, $250,000 fine, or both.
- House Bill 2006Dead
Prohibits person under 21 years of age from possessing firearms with specified exceptions.
- House Bill 2007Dead
Authorizes governing bodies of certain public entities that own or control public building to adopt policy, ordinance or regulation or precluding affirmative defense for possession of firearms in public building and adjacent grounds by concealed handgun licensees.
- House Bill 2373Dead
Directs Department of Justice to study ways to address unlawful possession of firearms, and to provide results of study to interim committees of Legislative Assembly no later than December 31, 2024.
- House Bill 2579Dead
Exempts from private transfer criminal background check requirement transfer of curio or relic firearm to person licensed as collector under federal law.