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Prohibiting a governing board of a public college or university from adopting or enforcing any policy or rule that prohibits a person with a valid permit to carry weapons from carrying, transporting, or possessing a dangerous weapon in the buildings or on the grounds of such a college or university, and including civil penalties
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 5, 2020
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 6, 2020
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- 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
7 (nonprofessional permit to carry weapons). The bill provides that a governing board found to be in violation of the bill shall be assessed a civil penalty of between $2,500 and $5,000 and shall pay the plaintiff’s reasonable attorney fees and court costs. The bill may be enforced by the state or through a private cause of action. The bill specifies that the civil penalty shall be deposited into the general fund of the state. A dangerous weapon is any instrument or device designed primarily for use in inflicting death or injury upon a human being or animal, and that is capable of inflicting death upon a human being when used in the manner for which it was designed, except a bow and arrow when possessed and used for hunting or any other lawful purpose.
Read the full explanation
Additionally, any instrument or device of any sort whatsoever that is actually used in such a manner as to indicate that the defendant intends to inflict death or serious injury upon the other, and that, when so used, is capable of inflicting death upon a human being, is a dangerous weapon. Dangerous weapons include but are not limited to any offensive weapon, pistol, revolver, other firearm, dagger, razor, stiletto, switchblade knife, knife having a blade exceeding five inches in length, or any portable device or weapon directing an electric current, impulse, wave, or beam that produces a high-voltage pulse designed to immobilize a person.
Senate subcommittee
Named February 6, 2020. It hasn’t reported yet.
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