HB 2266 — Modifies provisions relating to unlawful use of weapons

SECOND REGULAR SESSION HOUSE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR HOUSE BILL NO.

2266 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY INTRODUCED5964H.02C BYJOSEPH REPRESENTATIVEENGLER, TAYLORChief (48).Clerk AN ACT To repeal section 571.030, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to unlawful use of weapons, with penalty provisions.

5964H.01I JOSEPH ENGLER, Chief Clerk AN ACT To repeal section 571.030, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to unlawful use of weapons, with penalty provisions.

or (6) Discharges a firearm within one hundred yards of any occupied schoolhouse, courthouse, or church building;

HCS HB 2266 2 (6)(7) Discharges or shoots a firearm withinat onea hundredmark, yardsat of any occupiedobject, schoolhouse,or courthouse,at random, on, along or churchacross building;a public highway or discharges or shoots a firearm into any outbuilding;

or (7) Discharges or shoots a firearm at a mark, at any object, or at random, on, along or across a public highway or discharges or shoots a firearm into any outbuilding;

HB 2266 3 (4) Those persons vested by Article V, Section 1 of the Constitution of Missouri with the judicial power of the state and those persons vested by Article III of the Constitution of HCS HB 2266 3 the United States with the judicial power of the United States, the members of the federal judiciary;

the attorney general and any memberassistant ofattorney hisgeneral; or her staff;

Subdivision (1) of subsection 1 of this section does not apply to any person nineteen years of age or older or eighteen years of age or older and a member of the United States Armed Forces, or honorably discharged from the United States Armed Forces, transporting a concealable firearm in the passenger compartment of a motor vehicle, so long as such concealable firearm is otherwise lawfully possessed, nor when the actor is also in possession HB 2266 4 of an exposed firearm or projectile weapon for the lawful pursuit of game, or is in his or her dwelling unit or upon premises over which the actor has possession, authority or control, or is HCS HB 2266 4 traveling in a continuous journey peaceably through this state.

(2) Subdivision (1), (6), (7), or (8) of subsection 1 of this section shall be guilty of a class B misdemeanor, except when a concealed weapon is carried onto any private property HB 2266 5 whose owner has posted the premises as being off-limits to concealed firearms by means of one or more signs displayed in a conspicuous place of a minimum size of eleven inches by HCS HB 2266 5 fourteen inches with the writing thereon in letters of not less than one inch, in which case the penalties of subsection 2 of section 571.107 shall apply;

(3) Before such retirement, was regularly employed as a peace officer for an aggregate of fifteen years or more, or retired from service with such agency, after completing HB 2266 6 any applicable probationary period of such service, due to a service-connected disability, as determined by such agency;

HCS HB 2266 6 (4) Has a nonforfeitable right to benefits under the retirement plan of the agency if such a plan is available;