Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session
Relating to: going armed with a firearm while participating in a riot and providing a criminal penalty.
Assembly, unlawful Firearms and dangerous weapons
- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Assembly, not reached
- Passes Senate, not reached
- Governor signs, not reached
- Law, not reached
Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill prohibits participating in a riot while going armed with a dangerous
weapon, which includes a firearm. A person who violates the prohibition is guilty of
a Class G felony. The bill defines a “riot” as a public disturbance that involves an act
of violence, as part of an assembly of at least three persons, that constitutes a clear
and present danger of property damage or personal injury or a threat of an act of
violence, as part of an assembly of at least three persons having the ability of
immediate execution of the threat, if the threatened action would constitute a clear
and present danger of property damage or personal injury.
Sponsors
Votes
Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 3 adoption recommended by Committee on Judiciary, Ayes 6, Noes 2
Passed 6–2 Oct 27, 2017 official source full pageNo individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.
Assembly: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Judiciary, Ayes 6, Noes 2
Passed 6–2 Oct 27, 2017 official source full pageNo individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.
Full history
- Jun 19, 2017 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives Spiros, Brandtjen, Duchow, Kremer and Quinn; cosponsored by Senator Wanggaard
- Jun 19, 2017 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary
- Sep 21, 2017 · Assembly
Public hearing held
- Oct 11, 2017 · Assembly
Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Spiros
- Oct 11, 2017 · Assembly
Assembly Amendment 2 offered by Representative Spiros
- Oct 11, 2017 · Assembly
Assembly Amendment 3 offered by Representative Spiros
- Oct 12, 2017 · Assembly
Executive action taken
- Oct 27, 2017 · Assembly
Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Spiros
- Oct 27, 2017 · Assembly
Report Assembly Amendment 3 adoption recommended by Committee on Judiciary, Ayes 6, Noes 2
- Oct 27, 2017 · Assembly
Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Judiciary, Ayes 6, Noes 2
- Oct 27, 2017 · Assembly
Referred to committee on Rules
- Mar 28, 2018 · Assembly
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1