Bill Text: IL HB4306 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Firearm Concealed Carry Act. Provides that a municipality, including a home rule unit, may not revoke, suspend, or refuse to renew a business license or otherwise interfere with a business license issued by the municipality to a business owner, including the holder of a retail liquor license issued under the Liquor Control Act of 1934, because the business owner lawfully permits a concealed carry licensee to carry firearms into his or her business establishment. Effective immediately.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB4306 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HB4306-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning safety.
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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 Concealed Carry Act is amended by | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | changing Sections 90, 92, and 95 as follows:
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| 6 | (430 ILCS 66/90)
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| 7 | Sec. 90. Preemption. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | (a) The regulation, licensing, possession, registration, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | and transportation of handguns and ammunition for handguns by | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | licensees are exclusive powers and functions of the State. Any | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | ordinance or regulation, or portion thereof, enacted on or | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | before the effective date of this Act that purports to impose | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | regulations or restrictions on licensees or handguns and | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | ammunition for handguns in a manner inconsistent with this Act | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | shall be invalid in its application to licensees under this Act | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | on the effective date of this Act. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | (b) A municipality, including a home rule unit, may not | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | revoke, suspend, or refuse to renew a business license or | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | otherwise interfere with a business license issued by the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | municipality to a business owner, including the holder of a | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | retail liquor license issued under the Liquor Control Act of | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | 1934, because the business owner lawfully permits a concealed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | carry licensee to carry firearms into his or her business | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | establishment. | ||||||
| 2 | (c) This Section is a denial and limitation of home rule | ||||||
| 3 | powers and functions under subsection (h) of Section 6 of | ||||||
| 4 | Article VII of the Illinois Constitution.
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| 5 | (Source: P.A. 98-63, eff. 7-9-13.)
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| 6 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 7 | becoming law.
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