Bill Text: GA SB98 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Firearms; provide exemption from application of certain laws for persons possessing valid weapons carry licenses; exceptions
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-22 - House Committee Favorably Reported [SB98 Detail]
Download: Georgia-2011-SB98-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Firearms; provide exemption from application of certain laws for persons possessing valid weapons carry licenses; exceptions
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-22 - House Committee Favorably Reported [SB98 Detail]
Download: Georgia-2011-SB98-Comm_Sub.html
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The
Senate Public Safety Committee offered the following substitute to SB
98:
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Part 3 of Article 4 of Chapter 11 of Title 16 of the Official Code of
Georgia Annotated, relating to carrying and possession of firearms, so as to
provide an exemption from the application of certain laws regarding the carrying
and possession of firearms for persons possessing valid weapons carry licenses;
to provide for exceptions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting
laws; and for other purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Part
3 of Article 4 of Chapter 11 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia
Annotated, relating to carrying and possession of firearms, is amended by
revising Code Section 16-11-130, relating to exemptions from Code Sections
16-11-126 through 16-11-127.2, by adding a new subsection to read as
follows:
"(a.1)
The prohibitions contained in Code Section 16-11-127 shall not apply to license
holders as defined in Code Section 16-11-125.1; provided, however, that nothing
in this subsection shall authorize a license holder to carry a weapon or long
gun in a jail, prison, courtroom, or beyond the security checkpoint of a
courthouse or on the premises of a nuclear power plant or in a state mental
health facility as defined by Code Section 37-1-1; and provided, further, that,
notwithstanding the provisions of Code Section 16-11-173, such license holders
shall not be authorized to carry firearms in county or municipal government
buildings unless the governing authority of such county or municipality
authorizes the carrying of firearms in such buildings by ordinance or
resolution. Nothing in this Code section shall restrict the rights of private
property owners or persons in legal control of property through a lease, a
rental agreement, a contract, or any other agreement to control access to such
property. When a private property owner or person in legal control of property
through a lease, a rental agreement, a contract, or any other agreement is also
an employer, his or her rights as a private property owner or person in legal
control of property shall
govern."
SECTION
2.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.