Firearm Legislation Awaiting Governor's Signature Or Veto
These are state level fiream related bills that are awaiting a signature or veto by the governor of that state.
Title: Firearms; firearm hold agreements defined; civil immunity therefrom provided
Description: Firearms; firearm hold agreements defined; civil immunity therefrom provided
Last Action: Enacted
Last Action Date: April 7, 2025
Title: To Create The Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act; And To Prohibit Financial Institutions From Using Certain Discriminatory Practices.
Description: To Create The Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act; And To Prohibit Financial Institutions From Using Certain Discriminatory Practices.
Last Action: Notification that HB1509 is now Act 452
Last Action Date: April 3, 2025
Title: To Prohibit Discrimination Of Agricultural Producers By Financial Services Providers; And To Establish The Farmer Protection Act.
Description: To Prohibit Discrimination Of Agricultural Producers By Financial Services Providers; And To Establish The Farmer Protection Act.
Last Action: Notification that SB409 is now Act 406
Last Action Date: March 31, 2025
Title: To Ensure Responsible Fund Management; And To Amend The Uniform Prudent Management Of Institutional Funds Act (2006).
Description: To Ensure Responsible Fund Management; And To Amend The Uniform Prudent Management Of Institutional Funds Act (2006).
Last Action: Notification that HB1307 is now Act 308
Last Action Date: March 18, 2025
Title: Concerning The Administration Of Instruction On Firearm Safety In Public School Districts And Open-enrollment Public Charter Schools.
Description: Concerning The Administration Of Instruction On Firearm Safety In Public School Districts And Open-enrollment Public Charter Schools.
Last Action: Notification that HB1117 is now Act 229
Last Action Date: March 4, 2025
Title: To Prohibit Local Government Regulation Of Knives Or Knife-making Components.
Description: To Prohibit Local Government Regulation Of Knives Or Knife-making Components.
Last Action: Notification that HB1418 is now Act 161
Last Action Date: February 25, 2025
Title: Concerning Firearm Hold Agreements; And To Provide Civil Immunity To A Federal Firearms Licensee Who Agrees To Hold A Firearm For An Individual.
Description: Concerning Firearm Hold Agreements; And To Provide Civil Immunity To A Federal Firearms Licensee Who Agrees To Hold A Firearm For An Individual.
Last Action: Notification that HB1067 is now Act 106
Last Action Date: February 18, 2025
Title: To Amend The Law Concerning The Discharge Of A Firearm At A Train; And To Increase The Fine That May Be Imposed For The Discharge Of A Firearm At A Train Or For Throwing Other Objects At A Train.
Description: To Amend The Law Concerning The Discharge Of A Firearm At A Train; And To Increase The Fine That May Be Imposed For The Discharge Of A Firearm At A Train Or For Throwing Other Objects At A Train.
Last Action: Notification that SB16 is now Act 27
Last Action Date: February 12, 2025
Title: To Amend The Law Concerning Negligent Discharge Of Firearms While Hunting Deer; And To Repeal § 15-43-205.
Description: To Amend The Law Concerning Negligent Discharge Of Firearms While Hunting Deer; And To Repeal § 15-43-205.
Last Action: Notification that SB15 is now Act 26
Last Action Date: February 12, 2025
Title: Gun Show Requirements
Description: Concerning requirements for gun shows.
Last Action: Sent to the Governor
Last Action Date: April 11, 2025
Title: Requirements for Sale of Firearms Ammunition
Description: Concerning requirements for the retail sale of ammunition for firearms, and, in connection therewith, establishing requirements for the delivery of ammunition sold at retail.
Last Action: Sent to the Governor
Last Action Date: April 8, 2025
Title: Semiautomatic Firearms & Rapid-Fire Devices
Description: Concerning prohibited activity involving semiautomatic firearms, and, in connection therewith, prohibiting the manufacture, distribution, transfer, sale, and purchase of specified semiautomatic firearms, classifying a device that increases the rate of fire of a semiautomatic firearm as a dangerous weapon, and making an appropriation.
Last Action: Sent to the Governor
Last Action Date: April 3, 2025
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Provides that violent felons that are in violation of the prohibition against owning, possessing, or controlling a firearm or ammunition are subject to a mandatory prison term. (HD1)
Last Action: Act 016, on 04/10/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1116).
Last Action Date: April 11, 2025
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Prohibits the possession, transfer, and sale of ghost guns. Establishes mandatory minimum sentencing for use of a ghost gun in the commission of a felony. (HD1)
Last Action: Act 018, on 04/10/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1118).
Last Action Date: April 11, 2025
Title: Relating To Firearms Reporting.
Description: Amends the annual reporting requirements imposed on the Department of the Attorney General and the chief of police of each county regarding licenses to carry firearms.
Last Action: Transmitted to Governor.
Last Action Date: April 8, 2025
Title: Relating To Firearms.
Description: Requires retail sellers or transferers of firearms to provide purchasers with notice regarding the law on firearms storage. Expands the requirements for the secure storage of firearms. Clarifies the offense of criminally negligent storage of a firearm. (HD1)
Last Action: Transmitted to Governor.
Last Action Date: April 8, 2025
Title: Education: school districts; information regarding the safe storage of firearms; require districts to provide to parents and legal guardians. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1313b.
Description: Education: school districts; information regarding the safe storage of firearms; require districts to provide to parents and legal guardians. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1313b.
Last Action: Presented To The Governor 01/08/2025 11:40 Am
Last Action Date: December 31, 2024
Title: Weapons: firearms; sale of weapons seized by a law enforcement agency under the penal code; prohibit. Amends secs. 239 & 239a of 1931 PA 328 (MCL 750.239 & 750.239a).
Description: Weapons: firearms; sale of weapons seized by a law enforcement agency under the penal code; prohibit. Amends secs. 239 & 239a of 1931 PA 328 (MCL 750.239 & 750.239a).
Last Action: Presented To The Governor 01/08/2025 11:28 Am
Last Action Date: December 31, 2024
Title: Revise law to recognize commission authority to regulate public use of private property under access agreements
Description: Revise law to recognize commission authority to regulate public use of private property under access agreements
Last Action: (S) Transmitted to Governor
Last Action Date: April 8, 2025
Title: Includes pistol converters in the definition of a rapid-fire modification device.
Description: Includes pistol converters in the definition of a rapid-fire modification device.
Last Action: SIGNED CHAP.115
Last Action Date: April 3, 2025
Title: Removes dealers of ammunition from certain provisions that require the use of certain merchant category-codes by payment card networks for firearm merchants.
Description: Removes dealers of ammunition from certain provisions that require the use of certain merchant category-codes by payment card networks for firearm merchants.
Last Action: SIGNED CHAP.116
Last Action Date: April 3, 2025
Title: Includes rifles and shotguns in required warnings to consumers regarding the risk of death or suicide in homes where such weapons are present.
Description: Includes rifles and shotguns in required warnings to consumers regarding the risk of death or suicide in homes where such weapons are present.
Last Action: SIGNED CHAP.114
Last Action Date: April 3, 2025
Title: Directs the commissioner of health to develop and implement a public awareness campaign on the safe storage of firearms, rifles and shotguns and child access and prevention.
Description: Directs the commissioner of health to develop and implement a public awareness campaign on the safe storage of firearms, rifles and shotguns and child access and prevention.
Last Action: signed chap.26
Last Action Date: February 14, 2025
Title: Regards hospital violence prevention, training, security plans
Description: To amend sections 2923.126 and 3727.18; to amend, for the purpose of adopting a new section number as indicated in parentheses, section 3727.18 (3727.182); and to enact new section 3727.18 and sections 109.7411, 2307.221, and 3727.181 of the Revised Code regarding hospital violence prevention and related training, security plans, and incident reporting and to generally grant civil immunity for certain injuries to a person who acts in self-defense or defense of another during the commission, or imminent commission, of an offense of violence to protect the members or guests of a nonprofit corporation under certain circumstances.
Last Action: Sent To The Governor
Last Action Date: December 30, 2024
Title: School board policies; parental notification; safe storage of prescription drugs and firearms in the household.
Description: School board policies; parental notification; safe storage of prescription drugs and firearms in the household. Requires each local school board to develop and implement a policy to require the annual notification of the parent of each student enrolled in the local school division, to be sent by email and, if applicable, SMS text message within 30 calendar days succeeding the first day of each school year, of (i) the importance of securely storing any prescription drug, as defined in relevant law, present in the household and (ii) the parent's legal responsibility to safely store any firearm present in the household. The bill requires each school board to make such parental notification available in multiple languages on its website. This bill is identical to SB 1048.
Last Action: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 2, 2025
Last Action Date: April 2, 2025
Title: Plastic firearms or receivers, unserialized firearms, etc.; transfer, etc., prohibited, penalties.
Description: Manufacture, importation, sale, transfer, or possession of plastic firearms and unfinished frames or receivers and unserialized firearms prohibited; penalties. Creates a Class 5 felony for any person who knowingly manufactures or assembles, imports, purchases, sells, transfers, or possesses any firearm that, after removal of all parts other than a major component, as defined in the bill, is not detectable as a firearm when subjected to inspection by the types of detection devices, including X-ray machines, commonly used at airports, government buildings, schools, correctional facilities, and other locations for security screening. The bill updates language regarding the types of detection devices that are used at such locations for detecting plastic firearms. Under current law, it is unlawful to manufacture, import, sell, transfer, or possess any plastic firearm and a violation is punishable as a Class 5 felony. The bill also creates a Class 1 misdemeanor, which is punishable as a Class 4 felony for a second or subsequent offense, making it unlawful for any person to knowingly possess a firearm or any completed or unfinished frame or receiver that is not imprinted with a valid serial number or to knowingly import, purchase, sell, offer for sale, or transfer ownership of any completed or unfinished frame or receiver, unless the completed or unfinished frame or receiver (i) is deemed to be a firearm pursuant to federal law and (ii) is imprinted with a valid serial number. The bill also creates a Class 1 misdemeanor, which is punishable as a Class 4 felony for a second or subsequent offense, making it unlawful for any person to manufacture or assemble, cause to be manufactured or assembled, import, purchase, sell, offer for sale, or transfer ownership of any firearm that is not imprinted with a valid serial number. The portions of the bill prohibiting unfinished frames or receivers and unserialized firearms have a delayed effective date of January 1, 2026; however, the portions of the bill prohibiting the knowing possession of a firearm or any completed or unfinished frame or receiver that is not imprinted with a valid serial number have a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026.
Last Action: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 2, 2025
Last Action Date: April 2, 2025
Title: School board policies; parental notification, safe storage of prescription drugs and firearms, etc.
Description: School board policies; parental notification; safe storage of prescription drugs and firearms in the household. Requires each local school board to develop and implement a policy to require the annual notification of the parent of each student enrolled in the local school division, to be sent by email and, if applicable, SMS text message within 30 calendar days succeeding the first day of each school year, of (i) the importance of securely storing any prescription drug, as defined in relevant law, present in the household and (ii) the parent's legal responsibility to safely store any firearm present in the household. The bill requires each school board to make such parental notification available in multiple languages on its website. This bill is identical to HB 1678.
Last Action: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 2, 2025
Last Action Date: April 2, 2025
