File Code: Public Safety
Prior Year Introduction As: SB 234/99 - JPR
- Sponsored By:
-
Senators Ferguson, Jimeno, Haines, Stone, Colburn, DeGrange,
Mooney, Dyson, Harris, Jacobs, Hooper, Stoltzfus, Hafer, and Munson
- Entitled:
-
Self-Defense Act - Rule of Law
Raising the age requirement for a holder of a permit to carry a
handgun from 18 to 21 years of age or older; requiring that an
applicant for a permit be certified by a qualified handgun instructor;
establishing certification requirements; establishing requirements for
issuance of a qualified handgun instructor's card; establishing a
45-day period in which the Secretary of the State Police must issue a
permit after an approved application; authorizing the Secretary to
deny, suspend, or revoke a card or reprimand a cardholder; etc.
Senate Action
- 1/27
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- 2/9
- Hearing 3/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/5
- Motion place bill on Second Reading (Senator Ferguson) Rejected (16-28)
House Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Timothy R. Ferguson, District 4
- Senator Richard F. Colburn, District 37
- Senator James E. DeGrange, Sr., District 32
- Senator Roy P. Dyson, District 29
- Senator John J. Hafer, District 1
- Senator Larry E. Haines, District 5
- Senator Andrew P. Harris, District 9
- Senator J. Robert Hooper, District 35
- Senator Nancy Jacobs, District 34
- Senator Philip C. Jimeno, District 31
- Senator Alexander X. Mooney, District 3
- Senator Donald F. Munson, District 2
- Senator J. Lowell Stoltzfus, District 38
- Senator Norman R. Stone, Jr., District 7
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS -see also- POLITICAL COMMITTEES
- EDUCATION -see also- DRIVER ED; HIGHER ED; SPECIAL ED; etc
- FEES -see also- DEVELOPMENT FEES AND TAXES
- GUNS
- LICENSES -see also- ALCOHOLIC BEV LIC; DRIVERS' LICENSES
- MINORS -see also- AGE OF MAJORITY; YOUTH
- NOTICES
- SAFETY -see also- OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY
- SELF DEFENSE
- STATE POLICE, DEPARTMENT OF
- TEACHERS
- WEAPONS -see also- GUNS
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Article - 27 Crimes and Punishments
- (
36E
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered
- Roll Call Vote (Legislative date is shown):
- Senate
- April 5, 2000: Motion place bill on Second Reading (Ferguson) Rejected (16-28)