Proposed Indiana Firearm Legislation HB1424
Legislation Overview
Title: Handgun licenses. Increases the duration of a four year handgun license to five years. Provides that an individual may simultaneously hold both a five year license and a lifetime license. Requires a law enforcement officer to whom an application for a handgun license is made to perform a national, fingerprint based criminal history check and consult available local, state, and federal criminal history data banks, including the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), when determining whether possession of a firearm by an applicant would be a violation of state or federal law. Removes the fees for lifetime licenses beginning
Description: Handgun licenses. Increases the duration of a four year handgun license to five years. Provides that an individual may simultaneously hold both a five year license and a lifetime license. Requires a law enforcement officer to whom an application for a handgun license is made to perform a national, fingerprint based criminal history check and consult available local, state, and federal criminal history data banks, including the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), when determining whether possession of a firearm by an applicant would be a violation of state or federal law. Removes the fees for lifetime licenses beginning
Session: 2018 Regular Session
Last Action: Committee report: do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations
Last Action Date: February 22, 2018
Sponsors
Note: the first sponsor listed is normally the primary sponsor. If a sponsor's name is a hyperlink you can click on it to 'follow the money'.
7 sponsors: Timothy Wesco (R); Ben Smaltz (R); Steven Stemler (D); Peggy Mayfield (R); Rodric Bray (R); Travis Holdman (R); Jon Ford (R);
Percentage of House Of Representatives sponsoring bill: 7% (7 of 100)
History
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| Senate | Feb 22, 2018 | Committee report: do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations |
| Senate | Feb 20, 2018 | Senator Holdman added as second sponsor |
| Senate | Feb 20, 2018 | Senator Ford added as third sponsor |
| Senate | Feb 7, 2018 | First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary |
| House | Feb 6, 2018 | Referred to the Senate |
| House | Feb 5, 2018 | Senate sponsor: Senator Bray |
| House | Feb 5, 2018 | Third reading: passed; Roll Call 146: yeas 71, nays 20 |
| House | Jan 31, 2018 | Representatives Stemler and Mayfield added as coauthors |
| House | Jan 31, 2018 | Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed |
| House | Jan 31, 2018 | Amendment #1 (Wesco) prevailed; voice vote |
| House | Jan 29, 2018 | Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| House | Jan 25, 2018 | Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127 |
| House | Jan 25, 2018 | Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| House | Jan 16, 2018 | Authored by Representative Wesco |
| House | Jan 16, 2018 | First reading: referred to Committee on Public Policy |
| House | Jan 16, 2018 | Coauthored by Representative Smaltz |
Texts
| Type | Date | State Link | Text |
| Amended | Feb 22, 2018 | state link | bill text |
| Engrossed | Feb 22, 2018 | state link | bill text |
| Engrossed | Jan 31, 2018 | state link | bill text |
| Amended | Jan 31, 2018 | state link | bill text |
| Amended | Jan 29, 2018 | state link | bill text |
| Amended | Jan 29, 2018 | state link | bill text |
| Amended | Jan 25, 2018 | state link | bill text |
| Introduced | Jan 25, 2018 | state link | bill text |
| Introduced | Jan 12, 2018 | state link | bill text |
Amendments
| Title | Description | Date | State Link | Text | Adopted |
| There are no amendments to this bill at this time | |||||
Votes - Click on description to view vote roll call
House - Committee Vote
House - Committee Vote
House - Third reading
Senate - Committee Vote
Link: link to state bill page
