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Title: Crimes and offenses; discharging a firearm into an occupied school bus or building, penalty increased
Description: Crimes and offenses; discharging a firearm into an occupied school bus or building, penalty increased
Last Action: Pending House Judiciary
Last Action Date: February 10, 2026
Title: Firearms: centralized list.
Description: An act to amend Section 26715 of the Penal Code, relating to firearms.
Last Action: Read first time. To print.
Last Action Date: February 10, 2026
Title: A bill for an act allowing the carrying of weapons on the grounds of a school under certain circumstances.
Description: A bill for an act allowing the carrying of weapons on the grounds of a school under certain circumstances.
Last Action: Introduced, referred to Public Safety. H.J. 02/10.
Last Action Date: February 10, 2026
Title: A bill for an act relating to the carrying, transportation, and possession of weapons, and including effective date provisions.
Description: A bill for an act relating to the carrying, transportation, and possession of weapons, and including effective date provisions.
Last Action: Introduced, referred to Judiciary. S.J. 239.
Last Action Date: February 10, 2026
Title: A bill for an act relating to firearm eligibility requirements.
Description: A bill for an act relating to firearm eligibility requirements.
Last Action: Introduced, referred to Judiciary. S.J. 238.
Last Action Date: February 10, 2026
Title: Amends existing law to revise a provision regarding prohibited conduct.
Description: CONCEALED WEAPONS -- Amends existing law to revise a provision regarding prohibited conduct.
Last Action: Introduced, read first time, referred to JRA for Printing
Last Action Date: February 10, 2026
Title: Amends and adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding programmable money.
Description: TRANSACTIONS -- Amends and adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding programmable money.
Last Action: Introduced, read first time, referred to JRA for Printing
Last Action Date: February 10, 2026
Title: Removing the criminal prohibition against firearm suppressors and firearm barrel length qualification requirement.
Description: Removing the criminal prohibition against firearm suppressors and firearm barrel length qualification requirement.
Last Action: Senate Introduced
Last Action Date: February 10, 2026
Title: AN ACT relating to regulated substances and declaring an emergency.
Description: Create a new section of KRS Chapter 138 to define terms; impose a 4% state retail regulatory license fee on all alcoholic beverage sales to consumers by alcoholic beverage retailers; establish procedures and duties of retailers; establish KRS Chapter 243A and create new sections thereof to impose state wholesale regulatory license fees on alcoholic beverages, state retail regulatory license fees on kratom, hemp-derived, and cannabinoid products, and penalties for violations; set out regulatory license fee rates, deductions for timely filing and payment, and licensee duties; amend KRS 211.285 to fund the alcohol wellness and responsibility education fund with 0.5% of the collected state retail regulatory license fees; amend KRS 241.010 to define "state or national conference" and redefine "alcoholic beverages"; amend KRS 241.069 to delete outdated language; amend various sections of KRS Chapter 243 to establish state license fees for new and existing license types; limit licensee discipline to only the specific license in question; establish a souvenir package license for distillers; authorize distillers, small farm wineries, and microbreweries to allow leashed dogs on their premises; allow caterers and special temporary auction licensees at state and national conferences; modify the privileges for various licensees, including a limited golf course, wholesaler, Class B distiller, and special agent or solicitor; allow a qualified historic site to sell alcoholic beverages by the package under a limited nonquota package license; add references to the new tax structure and statutes; modify requirements for public notice of a license application; sunset existing excise, wholesale, and other taxes on July 1, 2027, as they relate to alcoholic beverages; repeal and reenact KRS 243.075, relating to local regulatory license fees, to allow any moist or wet city or county to impose the fee; authorize audits of each city's or county's regulatory license fee fund by the Auditor of Public Accounts for the most recent 10 years; describe audit penalties for cities and counties that fail to substantially comply; establish the regulatory license fee audit fund; direct cities and counties to reduce the regulatory license fee to 3% within 4 years; limit future cities and counties to a 1% regulatory license fee; amend KRS 244.080 to permanently prohibit a retail license from using a premises if the licensee sold to minors at that premises 3 or more times in 24 months; amend KRS 244.585 to establish limitations for agreements between distributors and breweries or microbreweries; amend KRS 131.250, 139.010, 243.045, 243.430, 243.790, 243.850, and 243.990 to conform; EFFECTIVE, in part, July 1, 2027; EMERGENCY.
Last Action: to Committee on Committees (H)
Last Action Date: February 10, 2026
Title: Criminal Law - Second Degree Assault - Sports Official
Description: Prohibiting a person from intentionally causing physical injury to another if the person knows or has reason to know that the other is an official, an umpire, a referee, or a judge officiating at a sporting event; authorizing a police officer to arrest a person without a warrant if the police officer has probable cause to believe that the person has committed a certain assault; and establishing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a misdemeanor of assault in the second degree and is subject to certain penalties.
Last Action: Hearing 3/10 at 1:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: February 10, 2026
Title: Criminal Law - Wearing, Carrying, or Transporting a Handgun - Prior Convictions
Description: Altering the list of convictions that subject a defendant to enhanced sentencing for wearing, carrying, or transporting a handgun to include certain extra-jurisdictional crimes.
Last Action: Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: February 10, 2026
Title: Natural Resources - Hunting - Management
Description: Providing that the Department of Natural Resources may authorize the reduction of the deer population on certain property with deer damage using certain methods; altering the time restrictions for Sunday deer hunting in certain counties during deer firearms season; repealing the prohibition against hunting migratory game birds on Sundays and authorizing the Department to allow Sunday hunting for migratory game birds, subject to a certain requirement; etc.
Last Action: First Reading Environment and Transportation
Last Action Date: February 9, 2026
Title: Hunting - Lead and Lead-Based Ammunition - Phase-Out
Description: Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to require, through a certain phasing-out process, the use of nonlead ammunition for the hunting of all game species on or before July 1, 2029; and requiring the Department to authorize the use of lead ammunition for muzzleloaders, handguns, rifles, and shotguns if nonlead ammunition is not commercially available for the specific firearm.
Last Action: First Reading Environment and Transportation
Last Action Date: February 9, 2026
Title: Handgun Roster Reform
Description: Altering provisions of law relating to the handgun roster, including requiring the Attorney General, or the Attorney General's designee, to conduct a certain legal review of a petition to place a handgun on the handgun roster and to make a certain determination before a handgun is placed on the handgun roster; requiring the Maryland State Police, or a certain accredited laboratory, to conduct certain testing on a handgun; altering the responsibilities of the Handgun Roster Board; etc.
Last Action: First Reading Judicial Proceedings
Last Action Date: February 6, 2026
Title: Annual Corrective Bill
Description: Correcting certain errors or omissions in certain articles of the Annotated Code and the Public Local Laws of Maryland; clarifying language; correcting certain obsolete references; reorganizing certain sections of the Annotated Code; providing that the Act is not intended to affect any law other than to correct technical errors; and providing for the correction of certain errors and obsolete provisions by the publishers of the Annotated Code.
Last Action: First Reading Senate Rules
Last Action Date: February 6, 2026
Title: Public Safety - Law Enforcement Officers - Restrictions
Description: Establishing that a federal law enforcement officer's powers granted under a certain provision of law may be exercised only when the federal law enforcement officer is acting in accordance with State law; prohibiting a law enforcement officer of law enforcement agency from engaging in racial profiling; prohibiting a law enforcement agency from taking retaliatory punitive action against a law enforcement officer who discloses information concerning racial profiling; etc.
Last Action: First Reading Judicial Proceedings
Last Action Date: February 6, 2026
Title: Assisted Outpatient Treatment - Surrender or Seizure of Firearms
Description: Requiring a court, under certain circumstances, to order a respondent who has been ordered to comply with assisted outpatient treatment to surrender to law enforcement any firearm in the respondent's possession and not to purchase or possess any firearm for the duration of the assisted outpatient treatment order; and establishing procedures related to the surrender or seizure of a firearm to law enforcement under the Act.
Last Action: First Reading Finance and Judicial Proceedings
Last Action Date: February 6, 2026
Title: Firearms Dealers - Firearm Hold Agreements
Description: Providing that a certain federally licensed firearms dealer may not be held civilly liable for personal injury to or death of any person after the return of a certain firearm to a certain firearm owner at the termination of a certain agreement, with a certain exception.
Last Action: First Reading Judicial Proceedings
Last Action Date: February 6, 2026
Title: Public Safety - Gun Buyback Programs - Destruction of Firearms
Description: Requiring a federal firearms licensee or law enforcement agency operating a gun buyback program to destroy each firearm and all its component parts that is traded in as part of a gun buyback program; authorizing a licensee or agency to contract with a law enforcement agency or a business to destroy certain firearms; requiring a law enforcement agency operating a program to determine if a firearm is a crime firearm or has been reported lost or stolen before destroying the weapon; etc.
Last Action: First Reading Judicial Proceedings
Last Action Date: February 6, 2026
Title: Modifies and creates new provisions relating to telecommunications infrastructure
Description: Modifies and creates new provisions relating to telecommunications infrastructure
Last Action: SCS Voted Do Pass S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy & the Environment Committee (4858S.03C)
Last Action Date: February 10, 2026
Title: Requires the Department of Public Safety to establish an office dedicated to preventing the targeting of African American women and girls
Description: Requires the Department of Public Safety to establish an office dedicated to preventing the targeting of African American women and girls
Last Action: S First Read
Last Action Date: February 10, 2026
Title: Ad valorem tax and sales tax; authorize certain exemptions.
Description: An Act To Amend Section 27-31-1, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Exempt From Ad Valorem Taxation Any Leasehold Interest Or Sub-lease Thereof Conveyed To Any Nonprofit Organization For The Development, Support, Improvement, Administration Or Operation Of State Park Lands Under Section 55-3-47; To Amend Section 27-65-111, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Exempt From Sales Taxation Sales Of Tangible Personal Property Or Services To Any Nonprofit Organization For Purposes Of Making Improvements Or Repairs To Lands Or Properties Subject To A Lease Or Sub-lease For The Development, Support, Improvement, Administration Or Operation Of State Park Lands Under Section 55-3-47; To Bring Forward Section 55-3-47, Mississippi Code Of 1972, Which Relates To The Powers And Duties Of The Mississippi Department Of Wildlife, Fisheries And Parks Regarding State Parks, For The Purposes Of Possible Amendment; And For Related Purposes.
Last Action: Referred To Ways and Means
Last Action Date: February 10, 2026
Title: Changes monetary threshold for certain fourth degree theft crimes.
Description: Changes monetary threshold for certain fourth degree theft crimes.
Last Action: Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Law and Public Safety Committee
Last Action Date: February 9, 2026
Title: Authorizes use of campaign funds for security expenses of candidate and immediate family.
Description: Authorizes use of campaign funds for security expenses of candidate and immediate family.
Last Action: Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate State Government, Wagering, Tourism & Historic Preservation Committee
Last Action Date: February 9, 2026
Title: Requires court to consider results of domestic violence assessment before dissolving certain domestic violence restraining orders.
Description: Requires court to consider results of domestic violence assessment before dissolving certain domestic violence restraining orders.
Last Action: Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: February 9, 2026
Title: In burglary and other criminal intrusion, further providing for burglary; in robbery, further providing for robbery; and, in juvenile matters, further providing for definitions, for inspection of court files and records, for conduct of hearings and for transfer to criminal proceedings.
Description: An Act amending Titles 18 (Crimes and Offenses) and 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in burglary and other criminal intrusion, further providing for burglary; in robbery, further providing for robbery; and, in juvenile matters, further providing for definitions, for inspection of court files and records, for conduct of hearings and for transfer to criminal proceedings.
Last Action: Referred to Judiciary
Last Action Date: February 9, 2026
Title: Firearm Immunity Amendments
Description: Firearm Immunity Amendments
Last Action: House/ 1st reading (Introduced) in House Rules Committee
Last Action Date: February 10, 2026
Title: Secretary of State Amendments
Description: Secretary of State Amendments
Last Action: House/ 1st reading (Introduced) in House Rules Committee
Last Action Date: February 10, 2026
Title: Student Health and Wellbeing Amendments
Description: Student Health and Wellbeing Amendments
Last Action: House/ 1st reading (Introduced) in House Rules Committee
Last Action Date: February 10, 2026
Title: First Responder Mental Health Amendments
Description: First Responder Mental Health Amendments
Last Action: LFA/ bill sent to agencies for fiscal input for HB0338S01 in Legislative Fiscal Agency
Last Action Date: February 10, 2026
Title: Reforming certain boards and commissions
Description: The purpose of this bill is reform of state board and commissions system by eliminating unnecessary, expired, or outdated board, shifting essential functions of several boards or commissions to various agencies or entities, reducing the number of members on several continuing boards and commissions, modifying or eliminating several reports of various boards or commissions, and technical cleanup throughout.
Last Action: To Government Organization
Last Action Date: February 10, 2026
Title: Remove sales tax from firearm suppressors.
Description: The purpose of this bill is to exempt sales of firearm suppressors from consumer sales and service tax.
Last Action: To House Finance
Last Action Date: February 10, 2026
Title: Relating to Home Rule Reform
Description: The purpose of this bill is to prohibit municipalities participating in the Home Rule program from establishing additional protected classes of persons beyond what is designated in state statute.
Last Action: To House Government Organization
Last Action Date: February 10, 2026
Title: Second amendment protection act amendments-3.
Description: AN ACT relating to the protection of constitutional rights; amending the Second Amendment Protection Act as specified; creating exceptions to the Second Amendment Protection Act; creating civil penalties; creating criminal penalties; creating an exception to the Wyoming Governmental Claims Act; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.
Last Action: Bill Number Assigned
Last Action Date: February 10, 2026
