HB18 Alabama 2014 Session
Summary
- Primary Sponsor
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Alvin HolmesDemocrat - Session
- Regular Session 2014
- Title
- Firearms, regulation, possession, and use of, Sections 4, 5, 6, 7, and 10 of Act 2013-283, 2013 Reg. Sess., repealed; Sec. 11-45-1.1 added; Secs. 11-80-11, 13A-3-23, 13A-11-7, 13A-11-52, 13A-11-70, 13A-11-73, 13A-11-75, 13A-11-85, 40-12-143 am'd.
- Description
Act 2013-283 of the 2013 Regular Session is a comprehensive revision of existing laws regulating the possession and use of firearms.
Among other things, the act consolidates certain preemption language regarding the authority of local governments to regulate firearms, establishes a rebuttable presumption that the carrying of a firearm under certain conditions does not constitute the crime of disorderly conduct, revises the pistol permitting process, further provides for business license taxes on persons participating in gun shows, prohibits the carrying of firearms at specified locations and allows employees to transport or store a firearm or ammunition in the employee's motor vehicle under certain conditions, and allows the use of force for protection and self-defense on business property.
This bill repeals Act 2013-283 of the 2013 Regular Session in its entirety and restores amended or repealed Sections of the Code of Alabama 1975, to their original form.
- Subjects
- Firearms
Bill Actions
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security
Bill Text
Documents
Source: Alabama Legislature