Prohibition on certain bullets and providing a penalty. (FE)

What it would have done

Summary by the Legislative Reference Bureau, the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

Current law does not place restrictions on the type of ammunition or bullets an individual can possess. This bill prohibits a person, with certain exceptions such as for law enforcement or to comply with hunting requirements, from selling, transporting, manufacturing, or possessing any hollowpoint bullet, any bullet that expands or flattens easily in the human body, or any bullet with a hard envelope that does not entirely cover the core of the bullet. An individual who violates the prohibition is guilty of a Class H felony and is subject to a fine of up to $10,000, imprisonment of up to six years, or both. This bill also adds the new crime to lists of certain crimes that may increase the penalty or carry other consequences. For instance, this bill adds the crime to the list of violent crimes in a school zone so that if an individual sells, transports, manufactures, or possesses such ammunition on the premises of a school or within 1,000 feet from the premises of a school, the maximum term of imprisonment is increased by five years, and, in addition, a person who commits this crime may not possess body armor.

Because this bill creates a new crime or revises a penalty for an existing crime, the Joint Review Committee on Criminal Penalties may be requested to prepare a report concerning the proposed penalty and the costs or savings that are likely to result if the bill is enacted.

Who's behind it

2 representatives are its authors⁠. All 2 are Democrats.

1 more lawmaker signed on in support⁠.