Bill Text: MI HB4429 | 2023-2024 | 102nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Weapons: licensing; provision allowing employers to prohibit employees to carry at work; eliminate. Amends sec. 5n of 1927 PA 372 (MCL 28.425n).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 26-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2023-04-20 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 04/19/2023 [HB4429 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2023-HB4429-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 4429
A bill to amend 1927 PA 372, entitled
"An act to regulate and license the selling, purchasing, possessing, and carrying of certain firearms, gas ejecting devices, and electro-muscular disruption devices; to prohibit the buying, selling, or carrying of certain firearms, gas ejecting devices, and electro-muscular disruption devices without a license or other authorization; to provide for the forfeiture of firearms and electro-muscular disruption devices under certain circumstances; to provide for penalties and remedies; to provide immunity from civil liability under certain circumstances; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state and local agencies; to prohibit certain conduct against individuals who apply for or receive a license to carry a concealed pistol; to make appropriations; to prescribe certain conditions for the appropriations; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act,"
by amending section 5n (MCL 28.425n), as added by 2000 PA 381.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 5n. (1) This state or a local unit of government of this state shall not prohibit an individual from doing either of the following as a condition for receiving or maintaining any other license or permit authorized by law:
(a) Applying for or receiving a license to carry a concealed pistol under this act.
(b) Carrying a concealed pistol in compliance with a license issued under this act.
(2) Except as provided in subsection (3), an An employer shall not prohibit an employee from doing either of the following:
(a) Applying for or receiving a license to carry a concealed pistol under this act.
(b) Carrying a concealed pistol in compliance with a license issued under this act. This subdivision does not prohibit an employer from prohibiting an employee from carrying a concealed pistol in the course of his or her employment with that employer.
(3) A police agency may prohibit an employee of that police agency from carrying a concealed pistol if carrying a concealed pistol would result in increased insurance premiums or a loss or reduction of insurance coverage for that employer.
