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2024 SESSION
HB 939 Elections administration; prohibits possession of firearm within 100 feet of certain locations.
Introduced by: Irene Shin | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Elections administration; certain activities or conduct prohibited at polling places applicable to locations for absentee voting in person; prohibited possession of firearm within 100 feet of certain locations. Clarifies that the provisions of law prohibiting certain activities or conduct in and around a polling place shall also apply to locations where absentee voting in person is available. The bill also prohibits any person, with certain exceptions, from (i) knowingly carrying any firearm and (ii) knowingly doing so within 100 feet of the entrance of a polling place, the building used by the local electoral board to meet to ascertain election results, the building used to conduct a recount of an election, and other additional locations used for voting-related and elections-related activities. Under current law, this prohibition applies within 40 feet of such entrances.
FULL TEXT
- 01/09/24 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100563D pdf
- 02/02/24 House: Committee substitute printed 24106402D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/27/24 Senate: Committee substitute printed 24108142D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 03/25/24 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB939ER) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- Governor's veto explanation
HISTORY
- 01/09/24 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100563D
- 01/09/24 House: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 01/26/24 House: Assigned P & E sub: Election Administration
- 01/29/24 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 3-N)
- 02/02/24 House: Committee substitute printed 24106402D-H1
- 02/02/24 House: Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (12-Y 10-N)
- 02/06/24 House: Read first time
- 02/07/24 House: Read second time
- 02/07/24 House: Committee substitute agreed to 24106402D-H1
- 02/07/24 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB939H1
- 02/08/24 House: Read third time and passed House (51-Y 47-N)
- 02/08/24 House: VOTE: Passage (51-Y 47-N)
- 02/09/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/09/24 Senate: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 02/27/24 Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (8-Y 7-N)
- 02/27/24 Senate: Committee substitute printed 24108142D-S1
- 02/29/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 03/01/24 Senate: Read third time
- 03/01/24 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 03/04/24 Senate: Read third time
- 03/04/24 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 03/04/24 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 24108142D-S1
- 03/04/24 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB939S1
- 03/04/24 Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (20-Y 19-N)
- 03/05/24 House: Senate substitute agreed to by House 24108142D-S1 (51-Y 49-N)
- 03/05/24 House: VOTE: Adoption (51-Y 49-N)
- 03/25/24 House: Enrolled
- 03/25/24 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB939ER)
- 03/25/24 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/26/24 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/27/24 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 27, 2024
- 03/27/24 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
- 03/27/24 Governor: Vetoed by Governor
- 04/17/24 House: House sustained Governor's veto