File Code: Public Safety
Prior Year Introduction As: HB 266/98 - JUD
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Doory, Goldwater, Grosfeld, Menes, Rosenberg,
McIntosh, Burns, Zirkin, Petzold, Barkley, Dobson, and Marriott
- Entitled:
-
Handguns - Child Resistance Standards
Requiring that on or after October 1, 2000, handguns that are sold
must meet State performance standards for child resistance; requiring
that performance standards for child resistance be designed so that a
child under the age of 6 years would have difficulty in firing a
handgun; and requiring that the Secretary of State Police adopt
regulations by January 1, 2000, to carry out the Act.
House Action
- 2/3
- First Reading Judiciary
- 2/16
- Hearing 3/17 at 1:00 p.m.
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Ann Marie Doory, District 43
- Delegate Charles Barkley, District 39
- Delegate Emmett C. Burns, Jr., District 10
- Delegate Michael V. Dobson, District 43
- Delegate Marilyn R. Goldwater, District 16
- Delegate Sharon M. Grosfeld, District 18
- Delegate Salima Siler Marriott, District 40
- Delegate Maggie L. McIntosh, District 42
- Delegate Pauline H. Menes, District 21
- Delegate Carol Stoker Petzold, District 19
- Delegate Samuel I. Rosenberg, District 42
- Delegate Robert A. Zirkin, District 11
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- CONSUMER PROTECTION -see also- ADVTG.; LABELING; WARRANTIES.
- EQUIPMENT -see also- MOTOR VEHICLE EQUIPMENT
- GUNS -see also- HUNTING
- MINORS -see also- AGE OF MAJORITY; JUVENILE CAUSES; YOUTH
- RULES AND REGULATIONS
- SAFETY -see also- OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY
- STATE POLICE, DEPARTMENT OF
- WEAPONS -see also- GUNS
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Commercial Law
- (
13-319
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered
