CS/HB 503 Bill passed

[KimberPB]

Preservation & Protection of the Right to Keep & Bear Arms in Motor Vehicles Act of 2008: Creates "Preservation and Protection of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms in Motor Vehicles Act of 2008"; prohibits public or private employer from prohibiting customer, employee, or invitee from possessing any legally owned firearm that is lawfully possessed & locked inside or locked to private motor vehicle in parking lot; prohibits such entities from violating specified privacy rights by verbal or written inquiry, etc.

Effective Date: July 1, 2008, and shall apply to causes of action accruing on or after that date.

Last Event: Passage on third reading on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 2:52 PM
CS passed as amended; YEAS 72, NAYS 42

[underwritingtech]

We still need the Senate to pass it's version of this bill and for the bill to go into committee to negotiate the differences between the two versions. I am very hopeful that we will have this law on the books but it also looked like it last year until the VA Tech shooting last year killed it.