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Allowing county attorneys and assistant county attorneys to obtain a professional permit to carry weapons
Sponsored by the Senate Judiciary (successor To Ssb 1007) Committee
Topics:Courts & civil lawFirearms
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedMarch 11, 2019
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 15, 2020
- Done: Senate committeeMarch 11, 2019
- Done: Passes the SenateFebruary 6, 202047–1
- Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the House
- 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
6, a person may be issued a professional permit to carry weapons when the person’s employment in a private investigation business or private security business, or a person’s employment as a peace officer, correctional officer, security guard, bank messenger or other person transporting property of a value requiring security, or in police work, reasonably justifies that person going armed.6 to allow county attorneys and assistant county attorneys to obtain a professional permit to carry weapons. A professional permit to carry weapons issued to a county attorney or assistant county attorney authorizes that person to go armed anywhere in the state at all times except on the grounds of a school or beyond a security screening station at a courthouse subject to the rules, directives, and procedures of the judicial branch and the judicial district.
Read the full explanation
A county attorney or an assistant county attorney seeking a professional permit to carry weapons pursuant to the bill shall complete a law enforcement agency firearm safety training course that qualifies a peace officer to carry a firearm in the normal course of the peace officer’s duties, and not be disqualified from obtaining a professional or nonprofessional permit to carry weapons. Permits issued to county attorneys and assistant county attorneys are valid through that person’s period of employment unless otherwise cancelled. The bill provides that county attorneys and assistant county attorneys, as a condition of their employment, shall not be required to obtain a professional permit to carry weapons.
House subcommittee
Named February 19, 2020. On March 3, 2020 it recommended passage.
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