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Bills · 2013-2014 Regular Session

AB 118

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Relating to: exceptions to the prohibition against firearms in school zones.

Contracts Firearms and dangerous weapons School School — Building

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Current law generally prohibits a person from possessing a firearm in a school

zone. Current law provides many exceptions including references to federal law that

exempt the following: a person on private property that is not part of school grounds;

a person who possesses the firearm for use in a program approved by a school in the

school zone; a person who possesses the firearm in accordance with a contract

entered into between a school in the school zone and the person or the person's

employer; a law enforcement officer acting in his or her official capacity; and a person

who possesses a firearm that is unloaded and who is traversing school premises to

gain access to lands open to hunting. This bill enumerates these exceptions in

statute versus using a reference to federal law.

The bill also explicitly permits a school board to enter into a contract with a

person, or a person's employer, that allows the person to possess a firearm in a school

zone.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Brooks (R) , Knodl (R) , Pridemore (R) , T. Larson (R) , Thiesfeldt (R)

Full history

  1. Apr 3, 2013 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Pridemore, Thiesfeldt, T. Larson, Brooks and Knodl

  2. Apr 3, 2013 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary

  3. Apr 8, 2014 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1