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Creating the second amendment preservation Act, providing penalties, and including effective date provisions
Topics:Courts & civil lawFirearms
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 30, 2023
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 9, 2023
- Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- 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 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, 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 creates the second amendment preservation Act. The bill defines “law-abiding citizen” to include a person who is not otherwise precluded under state law from possessing a firearm and does not include anyone who is not legally present in the United States or the state of Iowa. The bill affirms the state of Iowa’s authority to regulate firearms within its borders. The bill prohibits the enforcement of any federal infringement on the people’s right to keep and bear arms. The bill provides examples of federal actions that are considered infringements on the right to keep and bear arms, including those actions that might reasonably be expected to create a chilling effect on the purchase or ownership of firearms, firearm accessories, or ammunition by law-abiding citizens or any act ordering the confiscation of firearms, firearm accessories, or ammunition from law-abiding citizens.
Read the full explanation
The bill declares void in the state a federal action that is considered an infringement on the right to keep and bear arms. The bill places a duty on courts and law enforcement agencies of this state to protect the rights of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms within the borders of this state and to protect these rights from the infringements defined in the bill. The bill holds liable a political subdivision or law enforcement agency that employs a law enforcement officer who acts knowingly to violate the provisions of the bill while acting under color of any state or federal law. The bill also provides that if a political subdivision or law enforcement agency knowingly employs an individual acting or who previously acted as an official, agent, employee, or deputy of the federal government or otherwise acted under the color of federal law within the borders of this state who knowingly enforced or attempted to enforce, or gave material aid and support to the efforts of another to enforce or attempt to enforce, an infringement identified in the bill, the political subdivision or law enforcement agency is subject to a civil penalty of $50,000 for each such person employed. In an action for injunctive relief, a political subdivision or law enforcement agency that is found to have violated the bill is responsible for paying reasonable attorney fees and costs and is subject to a civil penalty of $50,000 for each violation. The bill takes effect upon enactment.
From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text
House subcommittee
Named February 9, 2023. On February 22, 2023 it recommended passage. Vote Total: 2-1.
Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part
398 written public comments to its subcommittee: February 15, 2023 (398) · on the Legislature’s site
Iowa Code it changes
Creates§724A.1§724A.2§724A.3§724A.4§724A.5§724A.6§724A.7§724A.8§724A.9
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Lobbying
3 for · 9 against · 8 undecided · Who →
Family tree
Where this legislation came from and where it went: earlier tries, the versions it moved through this Assembly, and later bills built on it.
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Tried before
This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.
- HF 2303 Creating the second amendment preservation Act, providing penalties, and including effecti…89th General Assembly · In committee · same titleCleared committee
- SF 2002 Creating the second amendment preservation Act, and providing penalties89th General Assembly · Subcommittee recommends passage · nearly identicalCleared committee
Matched by the wording of each bill’s explanation, or an identical title. Companion bills and renumbered versions of this bill aren’t listed; they’re the same bill.