58 total bills, 0 anti-gun bills,
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Proposed Maryland Firearm Legislation
58 total bills, 0 anti-gun bills,
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Title: Public Safety - Handgun Permits - Renewal Period for Retired Law Enforcement Officer
Description: Establishing that a handgun permit issued to a retired law enforcement officer of the State or a county or municipal corporation of the State expires on the last day of the holder's birth month following 5 years after the date the permit is issued and may be renewed for successive periods of 5 years each if, at the time of an application for renewal, the applicant possesses the qualifications for the issuance of a permit.
Last Action: Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: March 5, 2013
Title: Criminal Law - Wearing, Carrying, or Transporting a Handgun - Active Assignment Exception
Description: Modifying an exception to the prohibition against wearing, carrying, or transporting handguns that limits the exception to a specified person on active assignment engaged in law enforcement.
Last Action: Unfavorable Report by Judiciary Withdrawn
Last Action Date: March 23, 2013
Title: Regulated Firearms - Disqualifying Crime - Domestically Related Crime
Description: Clarifying the definition of "convicted of a disqualifying crime" to specify that the term includes a case in which a person received probation before judgment for a crime of violence other than assault in the second degree and a case in which a person received probation before judgment in a domestically related crime; and modifying the definition of "disqualifying crime" to include a domestically related crime.
Last Action: Hearing 3/04 at 1:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: March 4, 2014
Title: Firearms - Detachable Magazines - Maximum Capacity for Ammunition
Description: Reducing to 10 rounds the maximum capacity for ammunition of a detachable magazine for a firearm that can be manufactured, sold, offered for sale, purchased, received, or transferred; and reducing to 10 rounds the maximum capacity for ammunition of a magazine which, when used by a person in the commission of a felony or a crime of violence, results in that person being guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to specified penalties.
Last Action: Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
Last Action Date: April 5, 2013
Title: Criminal Law - Access to Firearms - Penalties
Description: Prohibiting a person from storing or leaving a loaded or unloaded firearm in a location where specified individuals could gain access to the firearm; and altering the penalty for a violation of the Act.
Last Action: Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: March 5, 2013
Title: Public Safety - Handgun Permits - Qualifications
Description: Altering a provision of law so as to prohibit a person with a specified mental disorder from possessing a regulated firearm if the mental disorder impairs the mental or emotional functioning of the person in a specified manner, instead of if the person has a specified history of violent behavior; prohibiting the Secretary of State Police from issuing a handgun permit to a specified person unless a specified ground for exemption applies; etc.
Last Action: Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: March 5, 2013
Title: Firearm Safety Act of 2013
Description: Altering the authorization for a person to wear, carry, or transport a handgun to be within specified limitations; designating specified firearms as assault weapons; prohibiting, with specified exceptions, a person from transporting an assault weapon into the State or possessing, selling, offering to sell, transferring, purchasing, or receiving an assault weapon; authorizing specified licensed firearms dealers to continue to possess, sell, offer for sale, or transfer specified assault weapons under specified circumstances; etc.
Last Action: Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m. (Health and Government Operations)
Last Action Date: March 1, 2013
Title: Gun Shops - Security Requirements for Regulated Firearms
Description: Requiring an applicant for a State regulated firearms dealer's license to provide evidence satisfactory to the Secretary of State Police that the applicant's proposed place of business has specified security features; requiring a licensee to take specified security measures during nonbusiness hours and when the structure is not occupied; reducing from 30 days to 7 days the threshold amount of time spent in a specified medical institution that requires the Secretary to revoke a dealer's license under specified circumstances; etc.
Last Action: Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: March 5, 2013
Title: Handguns - Permit Qualifications and Carrying on School Property - School Guardians
Description: Requiring the Secretary of State Police to issue a handgun permit to a person who is otherwise qualified and has been designated as a school guardian under specified provisions of law; creating an exception to the prohibition against carrying a deadly weapon on public school property for a person designated as a school guardian and who has been issued a handgun permit; etc.
Last Action: Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: March 5, 2013
Title: Criminal Law - Carrying Weapons on School Property - Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act
Description: Creating an exception to the prohibition against carrying a deadly weapon on public school property for a person who holds a handgun permit or is certified under the federal Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act to carry a concealed firearm.
Last Action: Unfavorable Report by Judiciary Withdrawn
Last Action Date: April 5, 2013
Title: Public Safety - Firearm Ammunition - Purchaser Information
Description: Prohibiting, with specified exceptions, a person that sells ammunition from requiring the purchaser of the ammunition to provide personal identification information as a condition of purchase, collecting personal identification information of the purchaser of ammunition on behalf of a law enforcement agency, or providing to others the personal identification information of the purchaser of the ammunition; establishing penalties for a violation of the Act; etc.
Last Action: Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: March 5, 2013
Title: Handguns - School Employees - Handgun Permits and Carrying Weapons on School Property
Description: Authorizing a county board to authorize school employees in the county board's school system to carry a handgun on school property under certain circumstances; requiring the Secretary of State Police to issue a handgun permit to a person who is otherwise qualified and who is a school employee in a school system in which the county board has authorized school employees to carry a handgun; etc.
Last Action: Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: March 5, 2013
Title: Local Government Article
Description: Adding a new article to the Annotated Code of Maryland, to be designated and known as the "Local Government Article", to revise, restate, and recodify the laws of the State relating to local governments; etc.
Last Action: Approved by the Governor - Chapter 119
Last Action Date: April 9, 2013
Title: Crimes - Restricted Firearm Ammunition - Prohibition on Possession and Use
Description: Making it a misdemeanor to possess or use specified firearm ammunition during and in relation to the commission of a crime; and establishing penalties.
Last Action: Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
Last Action Date: April 5, 2013
Title: Task Force to Study the Impact of Assault Weapons
Description: Establishing a Task Force to Study the Impact of Assault Weapons; providing for the membership, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving compensation, but authorizing the reimbursement of specified expenses; requiring the Task Force to study and make recommendations regarding specified matters; requiring the Task Force to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before December 1, 2013; etc.
Last Action: Unfavorable Report by Judiciary Withdrawn
Last Action Date: March 11, 2013
Title: Firearms Freedom Act
Description: Prohibiting a specified public servant or dealer in the State from enforcing or attempting to enforce an act, a law, a statute, a rule, or a regulation of the United States government relating to a personal firearm, firearm accessory, or ammunition that is owned or manufactured commercially or privately in the State and that remains exclusively within the borders of the State; etc.
Last Action: Unfavorable Report by Judiciary Withdrawn
Last Action Date: February 25, 2013
Title: Public Safety - Regulated Firearms - Exemption from Training Course
Description: Providing an exemption from specified requirements to complete a specified firearms training course if an individual is a retired law enforcement officer of a unit of the federal government, the State, or any local law enforcement agency in the State.
Last Action: Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
Last Action Date: April 5, 2013
Title: Criminal Law - Child's Access to Firearms - Penalty
Description: Altering the penalty for storing or leaving a loaded firearm in a location where the person knew or should have known that an unsupervised child would gain access to the firearm.
Last Action: Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: March 5, 2013
Title: Public Safety - Firearms - National Crime Information Center Participation
Description: Requiring the State to participate fully in the National Crime Information Center database system; requiring the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention to ensure that all relevant information regarding individuals who are disqualified from possessing, using, selling, or transferring a firearm is submitted to the National Crime Information Center as soon as possible after disqualification; etc.
Last Action: Unfavorable Report by Judiciary Withdrawn
Last Action Date: February 18, 2013
Title: Regulated Firearms - Encoded Ammunition - Tax
Description: Authorizing a person to sell ammunition for a regulated firearm on or after a specified date only in accordance with the Act; requiring an ammunition manufacturer to encode ammunition for a regulated firearm in a specified way; requiring the Secretary of State Police, beginning on a specified date, to establish and maintain an encoded ammunition database; imposing a tax of 5 cents per round on the sale of encoded ammunition beginning on a specified date; etc.
Last Action: Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means Withdrawn
Last Action Date: March 4, 2013
Title: Public Safety - Ammunition - Sales Records
Description: Requiring a person engaged in the business of selling ammunition to keep specified records of ammunition sales; requiring a person engaged in the business of selling ammunition to verify specified information; requiring the Secretary of State Police to adopt specified regulations; authorizing the Secretary or the Secretary's designee to inspect specified records under specified circumstances; etc.
Last Action: Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: March 5, 2013
Title: Firearms - Criminal Justice Information System Central Repository - Reporting, Qualifications for Possession, and Relief from Disqualification
Description: Requiring a court to immediately notify the Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS) Central Repository if the court makes a specified finding that the person is a danger to self or to the person or property of another; requiring a court to immediately notify CJIS if the court appoints a guardian of the property or a guardian of the person of a disabled person; requiring a specified facility or Veterans' Administration hospital to submit a specified report of a voluntarily or involuntarily committed individual to CJIS; etc.
Last Action: Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m. (Health and Government Operations)
Last Action Date: March 1, 2013
Title: Mental Health Professionals - Duty to Report Risk of Serious Harm - Firearm Safety
Description: Requiring specified mental health professionals under specified circumstances to report to the Director of Mental Hygiene specified information about an individual that the mental health professional is currently treating; requiring the Director to report specified information to the Secretary of State Police under specified circumstances; limiting the use of specified information to specified firearms-related purposes; etc.
Last Action: Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m. (Health and Government Operations)
Last Action Date: March 1, 2013
Title: Public Safety - Access to Firearms - Storage Requirements
Description: Prohibiting a person from storing or leaving a loaded or an unloaded firearm in a location where a child could gain access to the firearm, unless the firearm is locked by a specified safety lock or is secured in a specified locked container; and altering the penalty for a violation of the Act.
Last Action: Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: March 5, 2013
Title: Task Force to Study Access of Individuals with Mental Illness to Regulated Firearms - Extension
Description: Altering the date by which the Task Force to Study Access of Individuals with Mental Illness to Regulated Firearms is required to submit its findings and recommendations to December 1, 2013; and extending to June 30, 2014, the termination date of the Task Force.
Last Action: First Reading Senate Rules
Last Action Date: April 8, 2013
Title: Firearms - Dealer's License and Handgun Permit Application Fees
Description: Increasing by $2 the fees paid by applicants for regulated firearms dealer's licenses and handgun permit initial applications; and requiring the Secretary of State Police to use $2 of the fees to support specified continuing education and crisis intervention teams in local jurisdictions.
Last Action: Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: March 5, 2013
Title: State Government - Maryland Public Information Act - Required Denials Regarding Firearm Dealers, Owners, and Permit Holders
Description: Prohibiting public inspection of the records of specified regulated firearm dealers, owners, and permit holders; authorizing the individual named in the record and the individual's attorney to view specified records; and providing that the Act does not prohibit the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and the Department of State Police from accessing specified records in the performance of official duties.
Last Action: Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations Withdrawn
Last Action Date: April 5, 2013
Title: Public Safety - High-Capacity Magazines - Exceptions
Description: Providing that prohibitions relating to detachable magazines with a specified ammunition capacity do not apply to bank security guards and armored car service guards under specified circumstances.
Last Action: Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
Last Action Date: April 5, 2013
Title: Public Safety - Regulated Firearms - Reporting Lost or Stolen
Description: Requiring a dealer or any other person who sells or transfers a regulated firearm to notify the purchaser or recipient at the time of purchase or transfer that the purchaser or recipient is required to report a lost or stolen regulated firearm to the local law enforcement agency; requiring the owner of a regulated firearm to report the loss or theft of the regulated firearm to the local law enforcement agency within 72 hours after the owner discovers the loss or theft; etc.
Last Action: Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
Last Action Date: April 5, 2013
Title: Public Safety - Firearms - Reporting Loss or Theft
Description: Requiring specified persons who sell or transfer firearms to notify specified purchasers or recipients at the time of purchase or transfer that the purchaser or recipient is required to report a lost or stolen firearm to a local law enforcement agency; requiring the owner of a firearm to report the loss or theft of a firearm to a local law enforcement agency within 48 hours after the owner discovers the loss or theft; etc.
Last Action: Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
Last Action Date: April 5, 2013
Title: Calvert County and St. Mary's County - Archery Hunting - Safety Zone
Description: Establishing for archery hunters in Calvert County and St. Mary's County a safety zone of 100 yards within which archery hunting may not take place except under specified circumstances.
Last Action: Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: March 28, 2014
Title: Maryland Assault Weapons Ban of 2013
Description: Designating specified firearms as assault weapons; prohibiting with specified exceptions a person from transporting an assault weapon into the State or possessing, selling, offering to sell, transferring, purchasing, or receiving an assault weapon; requiring the Handgun Roster Board to compile and maintain a roster of prohibited assault weapons; etc.
Last Action: Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
Last Action Date: April 5, 2013
Title: Criminal Law - Drive-By Shooting - Forfeiture of Motor Vehicle
Description: Prohibiting a person, while in or having just exited a motor vehicle, from recklessly discharging a firearm at or toward another motor vehicle or building or at or toward another person or an occupied building or motor vehicle; and requiring the forfeiture of a specified motor vehicle subject to specified requirements.
Last Action: Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
Last Action Date: March 20, 2013
Title: Public Safety - Firearms - Firearms Sales Prohibition
Description: Prohibiting the sale or transfer of a regulated firearm or ammunition by a business that derives more than 10% of the business' gross revenues from the sale of groceries; specifying penalties; etc.
Last Action: Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: March 5, 2013
Title: Public Safety - Regulated Firearms - Firearm and Permit Surcharge
Description: Requiring a specified surcharge to be imposed on regulated firearm purchases and handgun permit applications; requiring all money received from the surcharge to go into the Mental Health Services Fund; requiring the Department of State Police in collaboration with the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to adopt specified regulations; establishing the Mental Health Services Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; specifying the purpose of the Fund; etc.
Last Action: Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: March 5, 2013
Title: Sales and Use Tax - Ammunition - Developmental Disabilities Funding
Description: Increasing the sales and use tax rate for ammunition to 50% of the taxable price; and distributing the revenue from the sales and use tax on ammunition to the Waiting List Equity Fund to pay for services for individuals with developmental disabilities.
Last Action: Hearing 3/08 at 1:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: March 8, 2013
Title: Public Safety - Handgun Permit Background Check - Armored Car Company Employees
Description: Authorizing the Secretary of State Police to accept a background check from an armored car company in place of a criminal history records check performed by the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services under specified circumstances.
Last Action: Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: March 5, 2013
Title: Public Safety - Regulated Firearms - Application Fee and Mental Health Certification
Description: Increasing a specified firearm application fee; reducing the number of consecutive days that an applicant may not exceed in a medical institution for treatment of a mental disorder without a specified certification from a licensed mental health physician or under specified supervision; requiring a firearm application to be accompanied by a specified certificate from a licensed mental health physician issued within a specified period before the date of the application; etc.
Last Action: Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations Withdrawn
Last Action Date: March 23, 2013
Title: Regulated Firearms - License Issued by Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, or West Virginia - Reciprocity
Description: Specifying that a license to carry a regulated firearm, including a concealed regulated firearm, issued to an individual by Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, or West Virginia is valid in Maryland.
Last Action: Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: March 26, 2013
Title: Public Safety - Regulated Firearm Application - Required Information and Warnings
Description: Requiring a regulated firearm application to contain a specified statement relating to possession of a regulated firearm; requiring a licensed dealer or officer of a designated law enforcement agency, before accepting a firearm application, to read aloud and initial specified requirements and applicable regulations and ensure that the applicant initials the requirements and regulations; and establishing penalties for a violation.
Last Action: Hearing 3/01 at 12:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: March 1, 2013
Title: Criminal Law - Deadly Weapons on the Property of an Institution of Higher Education
Description: Prohibiting a person from carrying a deadly weapon on the property of an institution of higher education; providing specified exceptions to the prohibition; establishing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to imprisonment not exceeding 3 years or a fine not exceeding $1,000 or both; establishing that a person convicted of violating the Act by carrying or possessing a handgun shall be sentenced under specified provisions of law; and defining "institution of higher education".
Last Action: Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
Last Action Date: March 22, 2013
Title: Bow Hunting - Possession of Handguns for Protection
Description: Prohibiting the Department of Natural Resources from restricting specified licensed bow hunters from openly carrying a handgun under specified circumstances.
Last Action: Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
Last Action Date: February 21, 2013
Title: Regulated Firearms - Database - Applications for Dealer's License - Record Keeping and Reporting Requirements
Description: Requiring the Secretary of State Police or the Secretary's designee to disapprove an application for a State-regulated firearms dealer's license if the Secretary or designee determines that the applicant intends a person who is not eligible to be issued a dealer's license or whose dealer's license has been revoked or suspended to participate or hold a specified interest in the management or operation of the business for which the license is sought; etc.
Last Action: Hearing 2/06 at 1:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: February 6, 2013
Title: Firearm Safety Act of 2013
Description: Establishing an exception to the prohibition against carrying a deadly weapon on public school property; making it a misdemeanor to possess or use specified firearm ammunition during the commission of a crime of violence; limiting the authorization for a person to wear, carry, or transport a handgun; designating specified firearms as assault weapons; prohibiting, with exceptions, a person from transporting an assault weapon into the State or possessing, selling, offering to sell, transferring, purchasing, or receiving an assault weapon; etc.
Last Action: Approved by the Governor - Chapter 427
Last Action Date: May 16, 2013
Title: Crimes - Restricted Firearm Ammunition - Prohibition on Possession and Use
Description: Making it a misdemeanor to possess or use specified firearm ammunition during and in relation to the commission of a crime; and establishing penalties.
Last Action: Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: March 27, 2013
Title: Public Safety - Handgun Permits - Requirements and Limitations
Description: Specifying that a person who has been issued a permit to wear, carry, or transport a handgun may only wear, carry, or transport the handgun within the scope of the permit issued; altering a specified list of criteria that the Secretary of State Police must use to determine whether a specified handgun permit shall be issued to a person to include findings by the Secretary that the person is not prohibited from possessing a regulated firearm and additional specified conditions; etc.
Last Action: Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: March 6, 2013
Title: Criminal Law - Access to Firearms - Penalties
Description: Prohibiting a person from storing or leaving a loaded or unloaded firearm in a location where specified individuals could gain access to the firearm; and altering the penalty for a violation of the Act.
Last Action: Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings Withdrawn
Last Action Date: March 18, 2013
Title: Criminal Law - Child's Access to Firearms - Penalty
Description: Altering the penalty for storing or leaving a loaded firearm in a location where the person knew or should have known that an unsupervised child would gain access to the firearm.
Last Action: Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings Withdrawn
Last Action Date: March 18, 2013
Title: Handguns - School Employees - Handgun Permits and Carrying Weapons on School Property
Description: Authorizing a county board to authorize school employees in the county board's school system to carry a handgun on school property under certain circumstances; requiring the Secretary of State Police to issue a handgun permit to a person who is otherwise qualified and who is a school employee in a school system in which the county board has authorized school employees to carry a handgun; etc.
Last Action: Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: March 6, 2013
Title: Firearms - Detachable Magazines - Maximum Capacity for Ammunition
Description: Reducing to 10 rounds the maximum capacity for ammunition of a detachable magazine for a firearm that can be manufactured, sold, offered for sale, purchased, received, or transferred; and reducing to 10 rounds the maximum capacity for ammunition of a magazine which, when used by a person in the commission of a felony or a crime of violence, results in that person being guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to specified penalties.
Last Action: Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings Withdrawn
Last Action Date: March 11, 2013
Title: Public Safety - Regulated Firearms - Reporting Lost or Stolen
Description: Requiring a dealer or any other person who sells or transfers a regulated firearm to notify the purchaser or recipient at the time of purchase or transfer that the purchaser or recipient is required to report a lost or stolen regulated firearm to the local law enforcement agency; requiring the owner of a regulated firearm to report the loss or theft of the regulated firearm to the local law enforcement agency within 72 hours after the owner discovers the loss or theft; etc.
Last Action: Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: March 6, 2013
Title: Public Safety - Ammunition - Sales Records
Description: Requiring a person engaged in the business of selling ammunition to keep specified records of ammunition sales; requiring a person engaged in the business of selling ammunition to verify specified information; requiring the Secretary of State Police to adopt specified regulations; authorizing the Secretary or the Secretary's designee to inspect specified records under specified circumstances; etc.
Last Action: Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: March 6, 2013
Title: Public Safety - Firearms - Liability Insurance Requirement
Description: Requiring a person who possesses a firearm to maintain liability insurance that provides coverage of at least $250,000 for accidental injuries caused by the firearm; requiring a person who sells, rents, or transfers a firearm to verify that the purchaser, lessee, or transferee has specified liability insurance; establishing specified penalties for a violation of the Act; requiring a person who possesses a firearm before the effective date of the Act to comply with the requirements of the Act on or before January 1, 2014; etc.
Last Action: Hearing cancelled
Last Action Date: March 1, 2013
Title: Maryland Assault Weapons Ban of 2013
Description: Designating specified firearms as assault weapons; prohibiting with specified exceptions a person from transporting an assault weapon into the State or possessing, selling, offering to sell, transferring, purchasing, or receiving an assault weapon; requiring the Handgun Roster Board to compile and maintain a roster of prohibited assault weapons; etc.
Last Action: Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings Withdrawn
Last Action Date: March 11, 2013
Title: State Government - Access to Public Records - Firearm Ownership Records
Description: Requiring a custodian to deny inspection of a specified record indicating ownership of a firearm; and requiring a custodian to permit inspection of specified records by a person who is the subject of the records.
Last Action: Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: March 6, 2013
Title: Hunting - Schools - Expanded Safety Zone
Description: Prohibiting a person from shooting or discharging any firearm or other deadly weapon within 500 yards of a public or nonpublic school while hunting for any wild bird or mammal.
Last Action: Hearing cancelled
Last Action Date: February 28, 2013
Title: Criminal Law - Deadly Weapons on the Property of an Institution of Higher Education
Description: Prohibiting a person from carrying a deadly weapon on the property of an institution of higher education; providing specified exceptions to the prohibition; establishing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to imprisonment not exceeding 3 years or a fine not exceeding $1,000 or both; establishing that a person convicted of violating the Act by carrying or possessing a handgun shall be sentenced under specified provisions of law; and defining "institution of higher education".
Last Action: Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings
Last Action Date: March 28, 2013
Title: Education - The Reasonable School Discipline Act of 2013
Description: Prohibiting a principal from suspending or expelling a student who brings to school or possesses on school property a picture of a gun, a computer image of a gun, a facsimile of a gun, or any other object that resembles a gun but serves another purpose; prohibiting a principal from suspending or expelling a student who makes a hand shape or gesture resembling a gun; authorizing a principal to suspend or expel a student who performs a specified action as a direct act of violence against another student; etc.
Last Action: Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: March 20, 2013
