Virginia Senate Bill 324 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2012 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2012-11-30 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: Senate Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Limitation on administrative actions relating to Firearms Act. Establishes legislative preemption of any administrative action taken by an administrative body that has the direct or indirect effect of governing the purchase, possession, transfer, ownership, carrying, storage, or transporting of firearms, ammunition, or components or combination thereof, unless the administrative body has express statutory authority. Under the bill, any administrative action taken prior to July 1, 2012, having a direct or indirect effect of governing the purchase, possession, transfer, ownership, carrying, or transporting of firearms, ammunition, or components or combination thereof, other than those expressly authorized by statute, is invalid. The bill also requires administrative bodies to take appropriate action to bring any contrary administrative action into compliance.

Limitation on Administrative Actions Relating to Firearms Act; established.

Sen. Charles Carrico [R]

Del. Thomas Garrett [R]

2012-01-30 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-11-30	Senate	Left in Courts of Justice
2012-01-30	Senate	Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
2012-01-10	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2012-01-10	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12103208D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
2	2	4002	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	4120	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	4123	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+sum+SB324
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+ful+SB324+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+vot+S03C0072+SB0324