Bill Text: MI SB0586 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Weapons; other; local units of government prohibited from imposing certain restrictions on firearms; expand. Amends secs. 1 & 2 of 1990 PA 319 (MCL 123.1101 & 123.1102).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-11-09 - Referred To Committee On Judiciary [SB0586 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-SB0586-Engrossed.html

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SB-0586, As Passed Senate, November 8, 2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SENATE BILL No. 586

 

 

September 20, 2017, Introduced by Senators SHIRKEY, MEEKHOF and PAVLOV and referred to the Committee on Government Operations.

 

 

     A bill to amend 1990 PA 319, entitled

 

"An act to prohibit local units of government from imposing certain

restrictions on the ownership, registration, purchase, sale,

transfer, transportation, or possession of pistols, other firearms,

or pneumatic guns, ammunition for pistols or other firearms, or

components of pistols or other firearms,"

 

by amending sections 1 and 2 (MCL 123.1101 and 123.1102), as

 

amended by 2015 PA 29.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1. As used in this act:

 

     (a) "Firearm" means any weapon which will, is designed to, or

 

may readily be converted to expel a projectile by action of an

 

explosive.

 

     (b) "Local unit of government" means a city, village,

 

township, or county, school district, intermediate school district,

 

community college district, public library, local authority created

under state law, or any other political subdivision of this state.

 

     (c) "Pistol" means that term as defined in section 222 of the

 

Michigan penal code, 1931 PA 328, MCL 750.222.

 

     (d) "Pneumatic gun" means any implement, designed as a gun,

 

that will expel a BB or pellet by spring, gas, or air. Pneumatic

 

gun includes a paintball gun that expels by pneumatic pressure

 

plastic balls filled with paint for the purpose of marking the

 

point of impact.

 

     Sec. 2. (1) A local unit of government shall not impose

 

special taxation on, enact or enforce any ordinance or regulation

 

pertaining to, or regulate in any other manner the ownership,

 

registration, purchase, sale, transfer, transportation, or

 

possession of pistols, other firearms, or pneumatic guns,

 

ammunition for pistols or other firearms, or components of pistols

 

or other firearms, except as otherwise provided by federal law or a

 

law of this state.

 

     (2) This act does not prohibit the board of a school district

 

or the board of an intermediate school district from adopting or

 

enforcing policies regarding the possession of pistols, other

 

firearms, or pneumatic guns by students of that school district or

 

intermediate school district.