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2024 SESSION
HB 22 Auto sears and trigger activators; prohibition on manufacture, importation, sale, etc., penalty.
Introduced by: Michael J. Jones | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Manufacture, importation, sale, etc., of auto sears; prohibition; penalty. Prohibits the manufacture, importation, sale or offer to sell, possession, transfer, or transportation of an auto sear, defined in the bill as a device, other than a trigger activator, for use in converting a semi-automatic firearm to shoot automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger. A violation is punishable as a Class 6 felony. The bill also provides for the forfeiture of any auto sear concealed, possessed, transported, or carried in violation of the prohibition. This bill is identical to SB 210.
FULL TEXT
- 12/13/23 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101228D pdf | impact statements
- 01/19/24 House: Committee substitute printed 24105447D-H1 pdf | impact statements
- 02/19/24 Senate: Committee substitute printed 24107867D-S1 pdf | impact statements
- 03/07/24 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB22ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/26/24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0163) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
HISTORY
- 12/13/23 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101228D
- 12/13/23 House: Referred to Committee on Public Safety
- 01/13/24 House: Assigned PS sub: Firearms
- 01/18/24 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (10-Y 0-N)
- 01/18/24 House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/19/24 House: Reported from Public Safety with substitute (20-Y 0-N)
- 01/19/24 House: Committee substitute printed 24105447D-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 (8-Y 0-N)
- 01/29/24 House: Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/24 House: Read first time
- 02/01/24 House: Read second time
- 02/01/24 House: Committee substitute agreed to 24105447D-H1
- 02/01/24 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB22H1
- 02/02/24 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (92-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/24 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (92-Y 0-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 (13-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/24 Senate: Committee substitute printed 24107867D-S1
- 02/19/24 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: Reading of substitute waived
- 03/01/24 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 24107867D-S1
- 03/01/24 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB22S1
- 03/01/24 Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (27-Y 13-N)
- 03/04/24 House: Senate substitute agreed to by House 24107867D-S1 (89-Y 2-N)
- 03/04/24 House: VOTE: Adoption (89-Y 2-N)
- 03/07/24 House: Enrolled
- 03/07/24 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB22ER)
- 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 163 (effective 7/1/24)
- 03/26/24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0163)