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Proposed West Virginia Firearm Legislation SB476

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Legislation Overview

Title: Relating to distance firearm can be discharged near home, school or church

Subject: Firearms

Description: The purpose of this bill is to provide an exception to allow a homeowner or tenant to shoot a firearm in a lawful manner within five hundred feet of a dwelling house in which that person lives if no other dwelling house is located within five hundred feet of the person shooting. The bill also corrects an anomaly that allows a person to shoot a firearm at a closer distance to a school or church than to a dwelling house. This bill raises the distance for a school or church from 400 feet to 500 feet to bring it into conformity with the 500 feet shooting distance for dwelling houses.

Session: 2013 Regular Session

Last Action: To Natural Resources

Last Action Date: March 7, 2013

Sponsors

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9 sponsors: Clark S. Barnes; Craig Blair;Bill Cole;Donald H. Cookman;Mike Green; Dave Sypolt; Bob Williams; Ron Stollings; Daniel J. Hall

Percentage of Senate sponsoring bill: 26% (9 of 34)

History
Chamber Date Action
Senate Mar 7, 2013 Filed for introduction
Senate Mar 7, 2013 To Natural Resources then Judiciary
Senate Mar 7, 2013 Introduced in Senate
Senate Mar 7, 2013 To Natural Resources
Texts
Type Date State Link Text
Introduced 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

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