Florida House Bill 291 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-1)
Status: Failed on March 8 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-03-08 - Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Requires background checks on persons involved in firearm sales or transfers; requires firearm sales or transfers to be conducted through licensed dealer; revises requirements for safe storage of firearms; revises criminal penalties; requires firearms be sold by dealers with trigger locks or gun cases; revises warnings to be posted in gun dealerships; requires certain materials to be given to gun purchasers; prohibits specified acts involving unfinished firearm frames or receivers; prohibits certain activities involving three-dimensional printer or CNC milling machine.

Weapons and Firearms

Rep. Christine Hunschofsky [D]	Sen. Kristen Arrington [D]	Rep. Robin Bartleman [D]	Rep. LaVon Bracy Davis [D]
Rep. Hillary Cassel [D]	Rep. Lindsay Cross [D]	Rep. Fentrice Driskell [D]	Rep. Anna Eskamani [D]
Rep. Ashley Gantt [D]	Rep. Michael Gottlieb [D]	Rep. Jennifer Harris [D]	Rep. Dotie Joseph [D]
Rep. Tom Keen [D]	Rep. Johanna Lopez [D]	Rep. Angela Nixon [D]	Rep. Felicia Simone Robinson [D]
Rep. Kelly Skidmore [D]	Rep. Susan Valdes [R]	Rep. Katherine Waldron [D]	Rep. Patricia Hawkins-Williams [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-03-08	House	Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
2024-01-09	House	1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
2023-11-13	House	Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
2023-11-13	House	Referred to Judiciary Committee
2023-11-13	House	Referred to Justice Appropriations Subcommittee
2023-11-13	House	Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee
2023-10-27	House	Filed

S176 (Similar To) 2024-03-08 - Died in Criminal Justice
S518 (Similar To) 2024-03-08 - Died in Criminal Justice

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
790	0653		Amended Code	See Bill Text
790	174		Amended Code	See Bill Text
790	175		Amended Code	See Bill Text
790	223		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/291
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/291/BillText/Filed/PDF