General Assembly Update for January 26

The House Public Safety Committee met this morning and, along party line votes, rubber stamped the recommendations of last night's Firearms Subcommittee meeting.  The committee's actions are listed below:  

Bad Bills That Advanced:

HB12 Handguns; firearm locking device required for sale or transfer, child safety warning required. –Incorporated by Public Safety (HB158-McClure) 

HB158 Firearm locking device; required for sale or transfer of firearm.  - Reported from Public Safety with substitute (12-Y 10-N)
HB183  Firearms; storage in residence where minor or person prohibited from possessing is present, penalty. Reported from Public Safety (12-Y 10-N)  d from Public Safety (12-Y 10-N)
HB351  Firearm; locking device required for purchase, households where minor resides, penalty. Reported from Public Safety (12-Y 10-N) Referred to Committee on Appropriations
HB585  Home-based firearms dealers; prohibited near schools, penalties. Reported from Public Safety (12-Y 10-N) Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns
HB791  Pneumatic guns; Class 6 felony to possess. Reported from Public Safety with substitute (12-Y 10-N) Referred to Committee on Appropriations
HB1174 Assault firearms; age requirement for purchase, penalty. Reported from Public Safety with substitute (12-Y 10-N) Referred to Committee on Appropriations

The Committee also heard two good bills but there was no motion to report or to out right kill them so they died for lack of a motion.  Those bills were:

HB389 Concealed handgun; carrying without a permit.  Died for lack of a motion

HB1030 Concealed handgun; carrying without a permit. Died for lack of a motion

The one bad bill that had not been heard in subcomittee but was on the docket, HB602, a bill that creates an anti-gun grant program and also imposes an addtional tax on fireams and ammunition to fund the program, was carried over to next week as the patron was not at the committee meeting.
The following House bills will be on final passage today: 

HB 46 Firearm; transfers to another person from a prohibited person.  Vote: Passage (51-Y 44-N)

HB 466 Concealed handgun permits; reciprocity with other states.  Vote: Passage (50-Y 45-N)

There is only one firearm related bill on the docket for Senate Courts of Justice Committeed on Monday.  That bill is:

SB 515 Weapons; possession or transportation; facility that provides mental health services or developmental services; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to possess in or transport into any facility that provides mental health services or developmental services in the Commonwealth, including a hospital or an emergency department or other facility rendering emergency medical care, any (i) firearm or other weapon designed or intended to propel a missile or projectile of any kind; (ii) knife, except a pocket knife having a folding metal blade of less than three inches; or (iii) other dangerous weapon, including explosives and stun weapons. The bill provides that any such firearm, knife, explosive, or weapon is subject to seizure by a law-enforcement officer and specifies exceptions to the prohibition.

The committee meeting is at 8:00.  Please contact committee member and urge them to oppose the bill.  You can click their names below to find the contact information for each.

Surovell (Chair),  Obenshain, McDougle, Deeds, Stuart, Stanley, Boysko, Peake, Bagby, Jordan, Aird, Subramanyam, Carroll Foy, Perry, Salim