Bills › 88th General Assembly
Relating to maintaining dangerous weapons at a child care facility or when transporting a child receiving care from a child care facility, and providing penalties
Topics:FirearmsHealth careFamilies & human servicesChild care
Same legislation: HF 105
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 24, 2019
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill relates to maintaining dangerous weapons at a child care facility or when transporting a child receiving care from a facility. The bill requires a child care facility to develop and maintain written policies relating to the storage of a dangerous weapon in the facility and in a motor vehicle used to transport a child receiving care from the facility.7. The bill requires the written policy to include all of the following: a dangerous weapon shall be inaccessible to a child receiving care from the facility, a firearm shall be maintained in a locked place similar to a gun case, ammunition shall be maintained in a locked place separate from a firearm, and a firearm in a motor vehicle used to transport a child receiving care from the facility shall be unloaded and any ammunition in the vehicle shall be kept separate from the firearm and in a locked container.
Read the full explanation
The bill defines “involvement with child care” to mean an owner or employee of a facility. Under the bill, a person who has involvement with child care at the child care facility shall not do any of the following during regular business hours: allow a dangerous weapon to be accessible to a child at the facility, maintain a firearm in an unlocked place at the facility, maintain ammunition with a firearm at the facility, maintain ammunition in an unlocked place at the facility, knowingly possess or transport a loaded firearm in a motor vehicle used to transport a child receiving care from the facility, knowingly maintain ammunition with a firearm in a motor vehicle used to transport a child receiving care from the facility, or knowingly maintain ammunition in an unlocked container in a motor vehicle used to transport a child receiving care from the facility. A person who violates the bill commits an aggravated misdemeanor. An aggravated misdemeanor is punishable by confinement for no more than two years and a fine of at least $625 but not more than $6,250.8.
Family tree
88th General Assembly