File Code: Public Safety
Prior Year Introduction As: SB 351/97 - JPR
- Sponsored By:
-
Senators Ferguson, Jimeno, Haines, Colburn, Middlebrooks, Dyson,
and Stone
- Entitled:
-
Handgun Permits - Course Requirements - Qualified Instructors
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; and authorizing the Secretary to
deny, suspend, or revoke a card or reprimand a card holder.
Senate Action
- 2/6
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- 2/11
- Hearing 3/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/23
- Withdrawn
House Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Timothy R. Ferguson, District 4
- Senator Richard F. Colburn, District 37
- Senator Roy P. Dyson, District 29
- Senator Larry E. Haines, District 5
- Senator Philip C. Jimeno, District 31
- Senator C. Edward Middlebrooks, District 32
- Senator Norman R. Stone, Jr., District 7
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- EDUCATION -see also- PUBLIC SCHOOLS; SPECIAL ED.; HIGHER ED.
- GUNS -see also- HUNTING
- LICENSES -see also- ALC. BEVERAGES LICENSES; DRIVERS' LIC
- MINORS -see also- AGE OF MAJORITY; JUVENILE CAUSES; YOUTH
- SAFETY -see also- OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY
- 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
