Sub SB 938 - Reporting of Lost or Stolen Firearms - Connecticut Key Vote
Timeline
- Executive Signed
- June 19, 2007
- House Bill Passed
- June 5, 2007
- Senate Bill Passed
- May 23, 2007
- Introduced
- March 6, 2007
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Stage Details
Title: Reporting of Lost or Stolen Firearms
Signed by Governor Jodi Rell
Title: Reporting of Lost or Stolen Firearms
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that requires gun owners to report the loss or theft of their firearms more expediently and under threat of legal consequences, and creates the crime of firearm trafficking.
Highlights:
-Requires a gun owner to report the theft or loss of any firearm to the police within 72 hours of the time the owner discovered or should have discovered that the firearm was missing (Sec. 1). -Exempts antique firearms from this provision (Sec. 1). -Makes failure to report the theft or loss of a firearm within the prescribed time period an infraction for the first offense, punishable by a maximum fine of ninety dollars. Makes repeated violations class D felonies if accidental and class C felonies if intentional (Sec. 1). -Provides that any person who knowingly transfers five or less firearms to a person who is not legally permitted to own them is guilty of firearms trafficking as a class C felony, and that any person who knowingly transfers more than five firearms to a person who is not legally permitted to own them is guilty of firearms trafficking as a class B felony (Sec. 3).
Title: Reporting of Lost or Stolen Firearms
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that requires gun owners to report the loss or theft of their firearms more expediently and under threat of legal consequences, and creates the crime of firearm trafficking.
Highlights:
-Requires a gun owner to report the theft or loss of any firearm to the police within 72 hours of the time the owner discovered or should have discovered that the firearm was missing (Sec. 1). -Exempts antique firearms from this provision (Sec. 1). -Makes failure to report the theft or loss of a firearm within the prescribed time period an infraction for the first offense, punishable by a maximum fine of ninety dollars. Makes repeated violations class D felonies if accidental and class C felonies if intentional (Sec. 1). -Provides that any person who knowingly transfers five or less firearms to a person who is not legally permitted to own them is guilty of firearms trafficking as a class C felony, and that any person who knowingly transfers more than five firearms to a person who is not legally permitted to own them is guilty of firearms trafficking as a class B felony (Sec. 3).
Title: Reporting of Lost or Stolen Firearms
Committee Sponsors
- Public Safety and Security Committee (Sponsor)
- Beth Bye (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Tom F. Christiano (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Charles 'Don' Clemons Jr. (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Joseph J. 'Joe' Crisco Jr. (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Patricia A. 'Pat' Dillon (CT - D)
- William A. 'Bill' Finch (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Olivia R. 'Livvy' Floren (CT - R) (Out Of Office)
- Mary G. Fritz (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- John C. Geragosian (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Lile R. Gibbons (CT - R) (Out Of Office)
- Edwin A. 'Ed' Gomes (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Kenneth P. Green (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Mary Ann Handley (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Toni N. Harp (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Marie Lopez Kirkley-Bey (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Michael P. 'Mike' Lawlor (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Gary Daniel LeBeau (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Martin M. Looney (CT - D)
- Douglas McCrory (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- John P. McKinney (CT - R) (Out Of Office)
- Joseph S. 'Joe' Mioli (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Bruce V. Morris (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Arthur J. 'Art' O'Neill (CT - R) (Out Of Office)
- Walter M. Pawelkiewicz (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Claudia M. 'Dolly' Powers (CT - R) (Out Of Office)
- Felipe Reinoso (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Kelvin Roldan (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- James A. 'Jim' Shapiro (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Christopher R. Stone (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- William Tong (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Toni Edmonds Walker (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Donald E. Williams Jr. (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
More Info About this Vote
NOTE: THIS IS A SUBSTITUTE BILL, MEANING THE LANGUAGE OF THE ORIGINAL BILL HAS BEEN REPLACED. THE DEGREE TO WHICH THE SUBSTITUTE BILL TEXT DIFFERS FROM THE PREVIOUS VERSION OF THE TEXT CAN VARY GREATLY.