Bill Text: IL HB0274 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Firearm Concealed Carry Act. Provides that a municipality, including a home rule unit, may not revoke, suspend, or refuse to renew a business license or otherwise interfere with a business license issued by the municipality to a business owner, including the holder of a retail liquor license issued under the Liquor Control Act of 1934, because the business owner lawfully permits a concealed carry licensee to carry firearms into his or her business establishment. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-29 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0274 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB0274-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB0274 Introduced , by Rep. Steven Reick SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
430 ILCS 66/90
Amends the Firearm Concealed Carry Act. Provides that a municipality, including a home rule unit, may not revoke, suspend, or refuse to renew a business license or otherwise interfere with a business license issued by the municipality to a business owner, including the holder of a retail liquor license issued under the Liquor Control Act of 1934, because the business owner lawfully permits a concealed carry licensee to carry firearms into his or her business establishment. Effective immediately.
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HOME RULE NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning safety.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Firearm Concealed Carry Act is amended by
changing Sections 90, 92, and 95 as follows:
(430 ILCS 66/90)
Sec. 90. Preemption.
(a) The regulation, licensing, possession, registration,
and transportation of handguns and ammunition for handguns by
licensees are exclusive powers and functions of the State. Any
ordinance or regulation, or portion thereof, enacted on or
before the effective date of this Act that purports to impose
regulations or restrictions on licensees or handguns and
ammunition for handguns in a manner inconsistent with this Act
shall be invalid in its application to licensees under this Act
on the effective date of this Act.
(b) A municipality, including a home rule unit, may not
revoke, suspend, or refuse to renew a business license or
otherwise interfere with a business license issued by the
municipality to a business owner, including the holder of a
retail liquor license issued under the Liquor Control Act of
1934, because the business owner lawfully permits a concealed
carry licensee to carry firearms into his or her business

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establishment.
(c) This Section is a denial and limitation of home rule
powers and functions under subsection (h) of Section 6 of
Article VII of the Illinois Constitution.
(Source: P.A. 98-63, eff. 7-9-13.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.