HLS 15RS-110 ORIGINAL
2015 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 86
BY REPRESENTATIVE NORTON
Prefiled pursuant to Article III, Section 2(A)(4)(b)(i) of the Constitution of Louisiana.
WEAPONS/FIREARMS: Creates the crime of unlawfully supplying a child with an Uzi
submachine gun
1 AN ACT
2To enact R.S. 14:95.1.4, relative to offenses affecting public safety; to create the crime of
3 unlawfully supplying a child with an Uzi submachine gun; to provide for criminal
4 penalties; and to provide for related matters.
5Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 14:95.1.4 is hereby enacted to read as follows:
7 ยง95.1.4. Unlawfully supplying a child with an Uzi submachine gun
8 A. Unlawfully supplying a child with an Uzi submachine gun is the
9 intentional giving, selling, donating, providing, lending, delivering, or otherwise
10 transferring an Uzi submachine gun to any child twelve years of age or younger.
11 Unlawfully supplying a child with an Uzi submachine gun shall also include the
12 temporary transfer of an Uzi submachine gun to such person for use in target
13 shooting or on a firing or shooting range or for any other purpose.
14 B. Whoever commits the crime of unlawfully supplying a child with an Uzi
15 submachine gun shall be imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for not more than
16 two years, fined not less than one thousand dollars nor more than five thousand
17 dollars, or both.
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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions. HLS 15RS-110 ORIGINAL
HB NO. 86
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 86 Original 2015 Regular Session Norton
Abstract: Creates the crime of unlawfully supplying a child 12 years of age or younger
with an Uzi submachine gun.
Proposed law prohibits the supplying of a child 12 years of age or younger with an Uzi
submachine gun.
Provides that a person who violates proposed law shall be imprisoned with or without hard
labor for not more than two years, fined not less than $1,000 nor more than $5,000, or both.
(Adds R.S. 14:95.1.4)
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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions.