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Relating to the carrying, transportation, or possession of firearms on real property comprising a person’s place of employment
Sponsored by the Senate Judiciary Committee
Topics:Courts & civil lawFirearmsTransportation
Same legislation: SF 213
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 7, 2019
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 11, 2019
- Done: Senate committeeMarch 4, 2019
- Stopped: Passes the SenateDied when the General Assembly ended
- 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
This bill provides that an employer shall not prohibit an employee, which includes contract employees and volunteers, who possess a professional or nonprofessional permit to carry weapons from carrying, transporting, or possessing a firearm or ammunition on the real property comprising the employee’s place of employment if the firearm and ammunition are out of sight and inside the locked motor vehicle of the employee, provided the vehicle is parked in a location designated or allowed for employee parking, and if the carrying, transportation, or possession of the firearm or ammunition is otherwise lawful under Iowa law.
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The bill further provides that an employer, owner, or lawful possessor of the property on which the employer is located is immune from any claim brought by any person seeking damages that are alleged to have been a result of a firearm or ammunition brought onto the property of the employer, owner, or lawful possessor by an employee pursuant to the bill.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 15, 2020. On January 23, 2020 it recommended amendment and passage.
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Similar bills
- SF 2143 Relating to the carrying, transportation, or possession of firearms on real property compr…89th General Assembly · Renumbered as SF 2250Very similar
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