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2022 SESSION
SB 310 Plastic firearms and unfinished frames, etc.; manufacture, import, sale, etc., penalties.
Introduced by: Adam P. Ebbin | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Manufacture, import, sale, transfer, or possession of plastic firearms and unfinished frames or receivers and unserialized firearms; penalties. Creates a Class 5 felony for any person who manufactures, imports, sells, transfers, or possesses any firearm with a major component, as defined in the bill, that when subjected to inspection by the types of detection devices, including X-ray machines, commonly used at airports for security screening does not generate an image that accurately depicts the shape of the component. The bill updates language regarding the types of detection devices that are used at airports for detecting plastic firearms.
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 sell, offer to sell, transfer, or purchase an unfinished frame or receiver unless the party selling, offering to sell, transferring, or purchasing the unfinished frame or receiver is a federal firearms importer, manufacturer, or dealer or the unfinished frame or receiver is required by federal law to be, and has been, imprinted with a serial number by a federal firearms importer, manufacturer, or dealer.
FULL TEXT
- 01/11/22 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103963D pdf | impact statements
- 02/07/22 Senate: Committee substitute printed 22105984D-S1 pdf | impact statements
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/11/22 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103963D
- 01/11/22 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 01/31/22 Senate: Assigned Judiciary sub: Criminal Law
- 02/07/22 Senate: Reported from Judiciary with substitute (9-Y 4-N)
- 02/07/22 Senate: Committee substitute printed 22105984D-S1
- 02/07/22 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/10/22 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (12-Y 4-N)
- 02/11/22 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/22 Senate: Read second time
- 02/14/22 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/14/22 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 22105984D-S1
- 02/14/22 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB310S1
- 02/15/22 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (22-Y 18-N)
- 02/21/22 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/21/22 House: Read first time
- 02/21/22 House: Referred to Committee on Public Safety
- 02/22/22 House: Assigned PS sub: Subcommittee #1
- 02/25/22 House: Tabled in Public Safety (12-Y 10-N)