HB1607
Purchase, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices prohibited; penalties.
Status:
Vetoed
Latest Action:
April 2, 2025
House: Requires 64 affirmative votes to override Governor's veto
Chief Patron:
Dan Helmer (D)
Session:
2025 Regular Session
Summary
As Introduced. Importation, sale, manufacture, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices prohibited; penalties.
Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, or transfers an assault firearm, as that term is defined in the bill with some exceptions, and prohibits a person who has been convicted of such violation from purchasing, possessing, or transporting a firearm for a period ... (More) of three years from the date of conviction. The bill provides that an assault firearm does not include any firearm that is an antique firearm, has been rendered permanently inoperable, is manually operated by bolt, pump, lever, or slide action, or was manufactured before July 1, 2025. The bill also prohibits the sale of a large capacity ammunition feeding device, as that term is defined in the bill. The bill provides that any person who willfully and intentionally (i) sells an assault firearm to another person or (ii) purchases an assault firearm from another person is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor and that any person who imports, sells, barters, or transfers a large capacity ammunition feeding device is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill also makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person younger than 21 years of age to import, sell, manufacture, purchase, possess, transport, or transfer an assault firearm regardless of the date of manufacture of such assault firearm with some exceptions. This bill is identical to SB 1181. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/03/2025 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25100326D
- 01/03/2025 - House: Referred to Committee on Public Safety
- 01/09/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1607)
- 01/14/2025 - House: Placed on Public Safety Agenda
- 01/28/2025 - House: Placed on Public Safety Agenda
- 01/31/2025 - House: Reported from Public Safety (12-Y 9-N)
- 02/02/2025 - House: Read first time
- 02/03/2025 - House: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/04/2025 - House: Read third time and passed House (52-Y 47-N) Close Floor Vote
- 02/04/2025 - House: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- 02/04/2025 - House: Passed House (50-Y 48-N) Close Floor Vote
- 02/05/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 02/05/2025 - Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/10/2025 - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 6-N)
- 02/10/2025 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/12/2025 - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N)
- 02/13/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 02/13/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/2025 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/14/2025 - Senate: Read third time
- 02/14/2025 - Senate: Passed Senate (21-Y 15-N) Close Floor Vote
- 02/19/2025 - House: Enrolled
- 02/19/2025 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1607ER)
- 02/19/2025 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/19/2025 - House: Enrolled
- 02/20/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1607)
- 02/22/2025 - Senate: Signed by President
- 03/03/2025 - House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025
- 03/03/2025 - Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
- 03/24/2025 - House: Governor's Veto Received by House
- 03/24/2025 - Vetoed by Governor
- 04/02/2025 - House: House sustained Governor's veto (50-Y 46-N) Close Floor Vote
- 04/02/2025 - House: Requires 64 affirmative votes to override Governor's veto
