Proposed Kentucky Firearm Legislation SB231
Legislation Overview
Title: AN ACT relating to concealed deadly weapons.
Description: Amend KRS 237.110 to allow applicants for concealed carry licenses to receive instruction from certain courses and qualified instructors outside of the Department of Criminal Justice Training firearms safety program; prohibit administrative regulations which would require concealed deadly weapon license applicants to clean guns in class; replace hands-on classroom gun cleaning requirements with instructor demonstrations; move investigation of incomplete training to Kentucky State Police from Department of Criminal Justice Training; create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to provide Kentucky State Police with authority to approve firearms safety courses and programs for training qualified instructors; amend KRS 237.120 to require instructor trainers to have 3 years of prior experience as applicant instructors; amend KRS 237.122 to allow firearms instructor trainers or certified firearms instructors to charge any amount for courses, rather than capping the applicant course at $75 and the instructor course at $150; amend KRS 237.128 to make providing incomplete firearms training a Class A misdemeanor rather than a Class D felony; amend KRS 237.132 to make failure to report insufficient training a Class B misdemeanor; amend various KRS sections to conform.
Session: 2016 Regular Session
Last Action: recommitted to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)
Last Action Date: March 28, 2016
Sponsors
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2 sponsors: Ray Jones; C.B. Embry;
Percentage of Senate sponsoring bill: 5% (2 of 38)
History
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| Senate | Mar 28, 2016 | recommitted to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S) |
| Senate | Mar 25, 2016 | passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day |
| Senate | Mar 24, 2016 | posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 25, 2016 |
| Senate | Mar 21, 2016 | floor amendment (1) filed |
| Senate | Mar 18, 2016 | 2nd reading, to Rules |
| Senate | Mar 17, 2016 | reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar |
| Senate | Feb 29, 2016 | to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S) |
| Senate | Feb 25, 2016 | introduced in Senate |
Texts
| Type | Date | State Link | Text |
| Draft | not available | state link | bill text |
| Draft | not available | state link | bill text |
Amendments
| Title | Description | Date | State Link | Text | Adopted |
| There are no amendments to this bill at this time | |||||
Votes - Click on description to view vote roll call
There have not been any votes on this bill
Link: link to state bill page
