Bills · 2015-2016 Regular Session

AB 77

Relating to: certification cards to carry concealed weapons for residents of Wisconsin who formerly were employed as law enforcement officers in another state and successor law enforcement agencies to assume responsibility of issuing certification cards to carry concealed weapons to former officers. (FE)

Extraordinary session, 2015 — November Firearms and dangerous weapons Identification cards Interstate relations Justice, department of Police

Introduced, completed
Passes Assembly, completed
Passes Senate, completed
Governor signs, completed
Law, completed

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Current law generally prohibits a person from going armed with a concealed

and dangerous weapon. This prohibition has many exceptions, including an

exception for a former law enforcement officer who has one of the following: 1) a

photographic identification issued by the law enforcement agency that formerly

employed him or her that indicates that, within the previous 12 months, that agency

found him or her to meet the firearms training standards the law enforcement

agency sets for active law enforcement officers to carry the type of firearm the former

officer is carrying; or 2) both a photographic identification issued by the law

enforcement agency that formerly employed the officer and a certification card

issued in Wisconsin, if the former officer resides in Wisconsin, or a certification card

issued by the state in which the former officer resides. The certification card must

indicate that, within the previous 12 months, the former officer's state of residence,

or a certified firearms instructor if such an instructor may conduct a firearms

qualification test for active law enforcement officers in that state, has found the

former officer to meet the firearms training standards for active law enforcement

officers to carry the type of firearm he or she is carrying.

Current law permits a qualified former law enforcement officer who was

employed by a state or local Wisconsin law enforcement agency to receive a

certification card from the law enforcement agency that employed him or her. This

bill specifically allows a qualified law enforcement officer to receive a certification

card from another law enforcement agency if that other law enforcement agency

assumes the responsibilities and duties of the law enforcement agency that employed

him or her.

Current law permits the Department of Justice (DOJ) to issue a certification

card to a qualified former federal law enforcement officer who resides in Wisconsin.

This bill permits DOJ to issue a certification card also to a qualified former law

enforcement officer who was employed by a state or local law enforcement agency in

another state but who resides in Wisconsin.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Fiscal Estimate From DOJ

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on State Affairs and Government Operations, Ayes 14, Noes 1

Passed 14–1 May 5, 2015 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: Read a third time and passed, Ayes 89, Noes 10

Passed 89–10 Jun 9, 2015 official source full page

Aye · 89

Nay · 10

Senate: Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 4, Noes 1

Passed 4–1 Sep 10, 2015 official source full page