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HB216
4HEDIRR-2
By Representatives Bedsole, Holk-Jones, Reynolds, Hendrix,
Almond, Faulkner, Treadaway, Kiel, Ensler, Robertson, Moore
(P), Shaver, Oliver, Gidley, Rehm, Harrison, Starnes
RFD: Judiciary
First Read: 06-Feb-25
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A BILL
TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
Relating to firearms; to define firearm hold
agreements; and to provide civil immunity for federal firearm
licensees who enter into firearm hold agreements under certain
conditions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
Section 1. (a) This section shall be known as and may
be cited as the Houston/Hunter Act.
(b) For the purposes of this act, the following terms
have the following meanings:
(1) FEDERAL FIREARMS LICENSEE. Any person who is
licensed pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Chapter 44.
(2) FIREARM. Has the same meaning as provided in 18
U.S.C. ยง 921.
(3) FIREARM HOLD AGREEMENT. A private transaction
between a federal firearm licensee and an individual firearm
owner where the licensee agrees to: (i) take physical
possession of the owner's lawfully possessed firearm at the
owner's request; (ii) hold the firearm for an agreed period of
time; and (iii) return the firearm to the owner.
(c) No individual shall have a private cause of action
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(c) No individual shall have a private cause of action
against a federal firearm licensee operating lawfully in this
state for returning a firearm to the firearm owner at the
termination of a firearm hold agreement.
(d) The immunity from civil liability provided in
subsection (c) shall not apply to any action arising from a
firearm hold agreement if that action is the result of
unlawful conduct on the part of the federal firearm licensee.
(e) This section shall not apply to firearm transfers
made in violation of Title 13A or Chapter 27 of Title 41, Code
of Alabama 1975.
Section 2. This act shall become effective on June 1,
2025.
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2025.
House of Representatives
Read for the first time and referred
to the House of Representatives
committee on Judiciary
................06-Feb-25
Read for the second time and placed
on the calendar:
0 amendments
................12-Feb-25
Read for the third time and passed
as amended
Yeas 98
Nays 2
Abstains 1
................18-Feb-25
John Treadwell
Clerk
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