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Relating to criminal history background checks for the sale or transfer of firearms, providing penalties, and including applicability provisions
Topics:Crime & correctionsFirearmsPublic safety & emergencies
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 24, 2024
- 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 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 relates to criminal history background checks for the sale or transfer of firearms. The bill provides that unless otherwise authorized by Code chapter 724 (weapons) or federal law, a person shall not sell or transfer a firearm to another person without receiving verification from a licensed firearms dealer that information on the prospective purchaser or transferee has been submitted to the department of public safety for a criminal history background check and that a determination has been received by the department of public safety that the prospective purchaser or transferee is not prohibited under either state or federal law from possessing a firearm.
Read the full explanation
A criminal history background check must include an inquiry of the national instant criminal background check system maintained by the federal bureau of investigation. The bill provides that, except as provided, a person who sells or transfers a firearm in violation of the bill is guilty of an aggravated misdemeanor. The bill provides that the following are not violations: a sale or transfer of a firearm to a firearm buyback program sponsored by a law enforcement agency; a transfer of a firearm to another person during an act of justified self-defense or justified defense of another person, provided that the possession after the transfer lasts no longer than is immediately necessary to resolve the emergency; a transfer of a firearm between family members; or the receipt of a firearm bequeathed to the recipient. The bill allows a licensed firearms dealer to charge and collect fees for obtaining criminal history record information checks on behalf of sellers or transferors. The bill directs the department of public safety to adopt rules as necessary to carry out the provisions of the bill. §923 to engage in the business of dealing in firearms. The bill applies to the sale or transfer of firearms on or after July 1, 2024.
From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text
Iowa Code it changes
Creates§724.33
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Lobbying
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