Proposed Maryland Firearm Legislation SB656
Legislation Overview
Title: Criminal Law - Failure to Properly Store Firearm - Death of Another
Subject: Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes: Public Safety: Crimes and Punishments: Death: Guns: Penalties and Sentences: Safety: Storage
Description: Prohibiting a person from storing or leaving a loaded firearm in a location where the person knew or should have known that a certain ward would gain access to the firearm; and prohibiting a person from storing or leaving a loaded firearm in a location where the person knew or should have known that an unsupervised child or a certain ward would gain access to the firearm resulting in the child or ward using the firearm and causing the death of another.
Session: 2023 Regular Session
Last Action: Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: February 14, 2023
Sponsors
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1 sponsors: Jill Carter (D);
Percentage of Senate sponsoring bill: 2% (1 of 47)
History
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| Senate | Feb 14, 2023 | Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m. |
| Senate | Feb 6, 2023 | First Reading Judicial Proceedings |
Texts
| Type | Date | State Link | Text |
| Introduced | Feb 9, 2023 | 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
