Bill Text: IL HB0008 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Engrossed
Bill Title: Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Provides that a county, including a home rule county, may not regulate firearms or impose greater restrictions or limitations on the acquisition, possession, transportation, carrying, and transfer of firearms, firearm attachments, and firearm ammunition. Further provides that the provisions of any ordinance or resolution imposing restrictions or limitations on the ownership or possession of firearms and ammunition, components, accessories, and accoutrements of firearms in a manner other than the requirements imposed by this Act or the Deadly Weapons Article of the Criminal Code of 1961 created after the effective date of this amendatory Act are invalid and all those existing ordinances and resolution are void. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB0008 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2011-HB0008-Engrossed.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning firearms.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Firearm Owners Identification Card Act is | ||||||
| 5 | amended by changing Section 13.1 as follows:
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| 6 | (430 ILCS 65/13.1) (from Ch. 38, par. 83-13.1)
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| 7 | Sec. 13.1. Municipal regulation; county regulation | ||||||
| 8 | preempted.
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| 9 | (a) The provisions of any ordinance enacted by any | ||||||
| 10 | municipality which
requires registration or imposes greater | ||||||
| 11 | restrictions or limitations on the
acquisition, possession and | ||||||
| 12 | transfer of firearms than are imposed by this
Act, are not | ||||||
| 13 | invalidated or affected by this Act.
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| 14 | (b) A county, including a home rule county, may not | ||||||
| 15 | regulate firearms or impose greater restrictions or | ||||||
| 16 | limitations on the acquisition, possession, transportation, | ||||||
| 17 | carrying, and transfer of firearms, firearm attachments, and | ||||||
| 18 | firearm ammunition. The provisions of any ordinance or | ||||||
| 19 | resolution after the effective date of this amendatory Act of | ||||||
| 20 | the 97th General Assembly by any county government that imposes | ||||||
| 21 | restrictions or limitations on the ownership or possession of | ||||||
| 22 | firearms and ammunition, components, accessories, and | ||||||
| 23 | accoutrements of firearms in a manner other than the | ||||||
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| 1 | requirements that are imposed by this Act or Article 24 of the | ||||||
| 2 | Criminal Code of 1961 are invalid and all those existing | ||||||
| 3 | ordinances and resolutions are void. This subsection is a | ||||||
| 4 | limitation of home rule powers under subsection (h) of Section | ||||||
| 5 | 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution. | ||||||
| 6 | (Source: P.A. 76-1939.)
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| 7 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 8 | becoming law.
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