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IN SB0043

Bill

Status

Passed

4/26/2017

Primary Sponsor

James Tomes

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Origin

Senate

2017 Regular Session

AI Summary

Senate Enrolled Act 43 Summary

  • Allows members of the general assembly and professional staff with valid Indiana handgun licenses to carry handguns within the state capitol building and on state capitol complex property.

  • Permits members of the Indiana lobby registration commission with valid Indiana handgun licenses to carry handguns within the state capitol building and on state capitol complex property.

  • Prohibits employers from adopting ordinances, resolutions, policies, or rules that ban employees from possessing firearms or ammunition locked in vehicle trunks, glove compartments, or out of plain sight in locked vehicles.

  • Requires employers at penal facilities to mandate that employees with firearms or ammunition secure them in locked cases and store them in vehicle trunks, glove compartments, or out of plain sight in locked vehicles.

  • Maintains existing prohibitions on firearms in child care institutions, emergency shelters, post-secondary educational institutions, domestic violence shelters, nuclear facilities, and electric utility properties.

Legislative Description

Firearms matters. Removes penal facilities from the list of locations where employer ordinances, resolutions, policies, or rules prohibiting the keeping of firearms on employer property may be enforced. Provides that a penal facility shall require an employee to: (1) secure the employee's firearm or ammunition, or both, in a locked case; and (2) store the firearm or ammunition in the trunk or glove compartment or out of plain sight in the employee's locked vehicle. Permits certain employees of the general assembly and members of the Indiana lobby registration commission to carry a handgun within the state capitol building and on

Last Action

Public Law 181

4/26/2017

Committee Referrals

Public Policy3/6/2017
Civil Law1/3/2017

Full Bill Text

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