Bill Text: MI SB1028 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Weapons; licensing; employer limitations on employee possessing a concealed pistol in vehicle located in parking lot; prohibit. Amends sec. 5n of 1927 PA 372 (MCL 28.425n).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-09-09 - Referred To Committee On Judiciary [SB1028 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2013-SB1028-Introduced.html
SENATE BILL No. 1028
September 9, 2014, Introduced by Senator SMITH and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
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 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 Except as
provided
in subsection (4), an employer from
prohibiting may
prohibit 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.
(4) An employer shall not prohibit an employee licensed under
this act to carry a concealed pistol from possessing a pistol in
his or her privately owned motor vehicle located in a parking lot
of the employer.
