House Bill 0501

    Florida House of Representatives - 2000                 HB 501

        By Representative Sobel






  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to regulation of firearms;

  3         amending s. 790.33, F.S., relating to state

  4         preemption of the field of regulation of

  5         firearms and ammunition; providing that certain

  6         ordinances, resolutions, rules, or regulations

  7         of local government are not precluded with

  8         respect to possession of weapons or firearms of

  9         public employees or possession of weapons or

10         firearms on public property controlled by local

11         government, under specified circumstances;

12         providing an exception for certain street,

13         road, or highway rights-of-way; providing an

14         effective date.

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16  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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18         Section 1.  Subsection (4) is added to section 790.33,

19  Florida Statutes, to read:

20         790.33  Field of regulation of firearms and ammunition

21  preempted.--

22         (4)  LOCAL REGULATION OF FIREARM POSSESSION BY PUBLIC

23  EMPLOYEES OR ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.--

24         (a)  Nothing in this section shall preclude any

25  ordinance, resolution, rule, or regulation of any local

26  government acting as an employer which regulates or prohibits

27  the possession of weapons or firearms of public employees on

28  the job, or areas related thereto, during working hours, or

29  during times related thereto.

30         (b)  Nothing in this section shall preclude any local

31  government from enacting an ordinance or resolution

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    Florida House of Representatives - 2000                 HB 501

    710-113-00






  1  prohibiting possession of weapons or firearms on public

  2  property controlled by a local government, other than the

  3  right-of-way of streets, roads, or highways, where the local

  4  government prominently displays a sign providing for such

  5  prohibition.

  6         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

  7  law.

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10                          HOUSE SUMMARY

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      Provides that specified provisions relating to state
12    preemption of the field of regulation of firearms and
      ammunition do not preclude certain ordinances,
13    resolutions, rules, or regulations of local government
      which regulate or prohibit possession of weapons or
14    firearms of public employees, under specified
      circumstances when the local government acts as employer.
15    Provides also that such provisions do not preclude
      certain local ordinances or resolutions prohibiting
16    possession of weapons or firearms on public property
      controlled by local government, under specified
17    circumstances.  Provides an exception for certain street,
      road, or highway rights-of-way.
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