Bill Title: Handgun licensure and fees. Increases the duration of a four year handgun license to five years. Provides that an individual may simultaneously hold both a five year license and a lifetime license. Requires a law enforcement officer to whom an application for a handgun license is made to perform a national fingerprint based criminal history check and consult available local, state, and federal criminal history data banks, including the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), when determining whether possession of a firearm by an applicant would be a violation of state or federal law. Removes the fees for lifetime licenses beginning July 1, 2020.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-01-10 - First reading: referred to Committee on Public Policy [HB1272 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Representative Timothy Wesco [R]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-021	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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