Indiana Senate Bill 506 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 10-0)
Status: Passed on May 17 2011 - 100% progression
Action: 2011-05-18 - Effective 07/01/2011
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [HTML]

Allows a person to carry a handgun without being licensed to carry a handgun if: (1) the person is in or on property, or in a vehicle, that is owned, leased, rented, or otherwise legally controlled by the person; (2) the person is lawfully present in or on private property that is owned, leased, rented, or otherwise legally controlled by another person, if the person has the consent of the owner to have the handgun on the premises, is attending a firearms related event, or is receiving firearms related services; (3) the person is lawfully present in a vehicle, that is owned, leased, rented, or otherwise legally controlled by another person; (4) the person is carrying the handgun at a shooting range, while attending a firearms instructional course, or while engaged in a legal hunting activity; or (5) the handgun is unloaded and securely wrapped. (Current law provides that a person who does not possess a valid handgun license may not carry a handgun in any vehicle or on or about the person's body unless the person: (1) is in the person's dwelling or fixed place of business or on the person's property; or (2) is carrying the handgun unloaded and in a secure wrapper from the place where the handgun was purchased to the person's dwelling or fixed place of business, between a handgun repair shop and the person's dwelling or fixed place of business, or from one dwelling or fixed place of business to another.) Specifies that a person who has been convicted of domestic battery may not possess or carry a handgun unless the person's right to possess a firearm has been restored by a court.

Handgun possession.

Sen. James Banks [R]	Sen. Travis Holdman [R]	Sen. Dennis Kruse [R]	Sen. Johnny Nugent [R]
Sen. Scott Schneider [R]	Rep. Milo Smith [R]	Sen. James Tomes [R]	Sen. Brent Waltz [R]
Sen. John Waterman [R]	Sen. Michael Young [R]

2011-04-19 - Senate - Senate - Senate concurred in House amendments (Y: 35 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2011-04-13 - House - House - Third reading: passed (Y: 84 N: 13 NV: 1 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2011-02-17 - Senate - Senate - Third reading: passed (Y: 43 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-05-18		Effective 07/01/2011
2011-05-17		Public Law 164
2011-05-10		Signed by the Governor
2011-05-02		Signed by the President of the Senate
2011-04-27		Signed by the Speaker
2011-04-26		Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2011-04-19		Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 385: yeas 43, nays 4
2011-04-14		Motion to concur in House amendments filed
2011-04-13		Returned to the Senate with amendments
2011-04-13		Third reading: passed; Roll Call 528: yeas 84, nays 13
2011-04-12		Amendment 2 (DeLaney), failed; voice vote
2011-04-12		Second reading: ordered engrossed
2011-04-07		Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2011-03-28		First reading: referred to Committee on Public Policy
2011-02-17		Senators M. Young, Waterman and Holdman added as coauthors
2011-02-17		Cosponsors: Reps. Eberhart and Morris
2011-02-17		House sponsor: Rep. VanNatter
2011-02-17		Referred to the House
2011-02-17		Third reading: passed; Roll Call 160: yeas 43, nays 7
2011-02-17		Third reading: recommitted to Committee of One, amendment adopted, passed; voice vote
2011-02-15		Amendment 1 (Taylor), failed; Division of the Senate: yeas 10, nays 36
2011-02-15		Amendment 7 (Tomes), prevailed;
2011-02-15		Reread second time: amended, ordered engrossed
2011-02-14		Amendment 6 (Tomes), withdrawn
2011-02-14		Second reading: call withdrawn
2011-01-27		Committee report: do pass, adopted
2011-01-18		Senators Nugent, Smith, Schneider and Waltz added as coauthors
2011-01-18		First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections, Criminal, and Civil Matters
2011-01-18		Coauthored by Senator Banks
2011-01-18		Authored by Senators Tomes and Kruse

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.in.gov/apps/lsa/session/billwatch/billinfo?year=2011&session=1&request=getBill&doctype=SB&docno=0506
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/IN/IN0506.1.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SB/SB0506.1.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SB/SB0506.2.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SB/SB0506.3.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/ES/ES0506.1.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SE/SE0506.1.html
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/PDF/Srollcal/0160.PDF.pdf
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/PDF/Hrollcal/0528.PDF.pdf
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/PDF/Srollcal/0385.PDF.pdf