Bill Text: IA HF261 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced

Iowa House Bill 261 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the regulation of smokeless powder as an explosive material. (Formerly HSB 87)

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-03-17 - Subcommittee, Sodders, Kinney, and Shipley. S.J. 600. [HF261 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-HF261-Introduced.html

House File 261 - Introduced




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

                                 (SUCCESSOR TO HSB 87)

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the regulation of smokeless powder as an
  2    explosive material.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 101A.11, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code
  1  2 2015, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3 This chapter shall not apply to the possession or use of
  1  4 twenty=five one hundred pounds or less of smokeless powder, or
  1  5 five pounds or less of black sporting powder, provided that:
  1  6                           EXPLANATION
  1  7 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1  8 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1  9    This bill relates to the regulation of smokeless powder
  1 10 as an explosive material. Under current law the explosive
  1 11 materials regulations under Code chapter 101A do not apply
  1 12 to the possession of 25 pounds or less of smokeless powder
  1 13 if the smokeless powder is intended for handloading or
  1 14 reloading of ammunition for small arms, is for private use, and
  1 15 conforms to certain other regulations. The bill raises the
  1 16 nonapplicability provision to include the possession of 100
  1 17 pounds or less of smokeless powder.
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