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Cat	Number	Title	Patron	House	Senate	updated
2023 Priority Bills Gun Violence Prevention
guns	HB 1515 Support	Auto sear; prohibition on use penalty. more... Makes it a Class 2 felony to possess or use an auto sear in the perpetration or attempted perpetration of a crime of violence.	Dawn Adams	Tabled		1/30/23
guns	HB 2240 Support	Prohibiting the sale, transport, etc., of assault firearms, large-capacity firearm magazines. more... Expands the definition of "assault firearm" and prohibits any person from importing, selling, transferring, manufacturing, purchasing, or transporting an assault firearm. A violation of this provision of the bill is a Class 6 felony	Dan Helmer	PBI		1/30/23
guns	HB 2288 Support	Assault firearms; purchase; age requirement; penalty. more... Provides that in order to purchase an assault firearm a person must be 21 years of age or older. The bill also expands the definition of "assault firearm" as the term applies to criminal history record information checks.	Mark Sickles	Tabled		1/30/23
guns	HB 2350 Support	Firearms; storage in residence where minor present, penalty. more... Requires any person who possesses a firearm in a residence where such person knows or reasonably should know that a minor under 18 years of age is present to store such firearm unloaded in a locked container, compartment, or cabinet and to store all ammunition in a separate locked container, compartment, or cabinet.	Marcus �Simon (D)	Tabled		1/5/24
guns	SB 909 Support	Firearms; transfers to another person from a prohibited person. more... Ensures that the firearms required to be relinquished under a protective order or assault and battery of a household member are actually relinquished.	Barbara A. Favola (D-SD31)	Tabled	Passed	2/10/23
guns	SB 918 Support	Assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices; carrying, sale, transfer, etc. more... Prohibits the sale of an assault firearm and a large capacity ammunition feeding device, as those terms are defined in the bill.	Joseph Morrissey		Incorp	1/24/23
guns	SB 1139 Support	Firearms; storage in residence where minor present, penalty. more... Requires any person who possesses a firearm in a residence where such person knows or reasonably should know that a minor under 18 years of age is present to store such firearm unloaded in a locked container, compartment, or cabinet and to store all ammunition in a separate locked container, compartment, or cabinet. ...	Jennifer Boysko (D-SD33)	Tabled	Passed	2/10/23
guns	SB 1181 Support	Unfinished frames or receivers and unserialized firearms; sale, transfer, or purchase, penalty. more... Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor... for any person to knowingly sell, offer to sell, transfer, or purchase an unfinished frame or receiver ...	Ebbin (D)	Tabled	Passed	3/11/24
guns	SB 1192 Support	Assault firearms; carrying in public areas prohibited, penalty. more... Prohibits the carrying of certain semi-automatic center-fire rifles, pistols, and shotguns on any public street, road, alley, sidewalk, or public right-of-way or in any public park or any other place of whatever nature that is open to the public. ...	Ebbin (D)	Tabled	Passed	3/11/24
guns	SB 1283 Support	Assault firearms; age requirement; penalty. more... Provides that in order to purchase an assault firearm a person must be 21 years of age or older. The bill expands the definition of "assault firearm" as the term applies to criminal history record information checks.	John S. Edwards		Incorp	1/24/23
guns	SB 1382 Support	Purchase, possession, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding. more... Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses, transports, or transfers an assault firearm, as that term is defined in the bill, and prohibits a person who has been convicted of such violation from purchasing, possessing, or transporting a firearm for a period of three years from the date of conviction.	Creigh Deeds	Tabled	Passed	2/10/23
guns	HB 1393 Oppose	Carrying a concealed handgun; permit not required. more... Allows any person who is otherwise eligible to obtain a concealed handgun permit to carry a concealed handgun without a permit anywhere he may lawfully carry a handgun openly within the Commonwealth.	Marie March (R-HD7)	Left		2/8/23
guns	HB 1420 Oppose	Carrying a concealed handgun; permit not required. more... Allows any person who is otherwise eligible to obtain a concealed handgun permit to carry a concealed handgun without a permit anywhere he may lawfully carry a handgun openly within the Commonwealth.	Bill Wiley (R-HD29)	Left		2/8/23

No. of bills: 13

Note: The Rules Committees of both Chambers have limited the number of bills that individual members may introduce this Session: Senators have bill limits of 26, and Delegates have bill limits of 15.

General info

Introduced Bills by subject

Education bills

Continued from last session

2023 Session dates

Dec 12: Bills available
Jan 11: Session begins
Feb 8: Crossover*
Feb 15: Budget conferees named

Glossary

Dillon Rule. Restricts local government authority to enact ordinances.

Conference Committee. A temporary committee w. members from both the House and Senate, tasked with reconciling differences in legislation that passed both chambers.

Continued/Carried over. Action taken in an even-numbered year to postpone the consideration of a measure until the next regular session of the General Assembly.

Crossover. The last day for a bill to pass out of the chamber in which it was introduced and move forward for consideration in the opposite chamber. If a bill does not move forward, it is "Left" (dead).

Engrossed. A legislative stage when a bill passes the second reading in the House of origin. Every bill has to be "read" on the floor three times before voting on it. The action or any debate or discussion usually comes on the day of the second reading or the third reading.

Enrolled. Legislation which has passed both the House of Delegates and the Senate, signed by the Speaker of the House and President of the Senate, sent to the Governor, but not yet signed.

Failed to report. Defeated. The rejection of a motion to 'report' a bill to the full chamber.

Incorporated. Rolled into someone another bill. Either because they're identical, or they have incorporated *some* of the language in, and the patron agreed to have her name on the other bill.

Patron. Bill sponsor. There can be many patrons.

PBI. Passed by Indefinitely. Action to allow a committee to reconsider legislation at a later meeting. If the committee takes no further action, the bill is dead. [Usually the bill is dead.]

Referred. The assignment of legislation to another standing committee with no stance on the policy of the measure (neither endorses nor rejects the legislation).

Reported. The approval of a measure by the majority of the committee. The legislation may be reported by the committee with or without amendments. A bill may also be reported and referred to another committee.

Stricken. Legislation removed from a committee's docket, frequently at the request of the patron.

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