Florida Senate Bill 518 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Failed on March 8 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-03-08 - Died in Criminal Justice
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Citing this act as the "Responsible Gun Ownership Act"; requiring background checks on all persons involved in a firearm sale or other transfer; requiring firearm sales or other transfers between unlicensed persons to be conducted through, and processed by, a licensed dealer; specifying requirements for firearm sales or transfers through licensed dealers; providing criminal penalties; prohibiting licensed dealers from selling firearms without trigger locks or gun cases; providing exceptions; providing definitions; prohibiting certain actions leading to the manufacture or assembly, sale, or transfer of a firearm not imprinted with a valid serial number, etc.

Weapons and Firearms

Sen. Tina Polsky [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-03-08	Senate	Died in Criminal Justice
2024-01-09	Senate	Introduced
2023-12-05	Senate	Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy
2023-11-17	Senate	Filed

H291 (Similar To) 2024-03-08 - Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
S176 (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/2024/518
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/518/BillText/Filed/HTML