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A-3 Latz offers as amended – adopted by voice
Oral amendment to A-3: Line 6.23: reinstate the stricken language and delete “firearm”
Line 6.26: reinstate the stricken language and delete “firearm”
Line 6.29: reinstate the stricken language and delete “firearm”
Line 6.31: delete “firearms” and insert “a pistol or semiautomatic military-style assault weapon
A-6: Seeberger offers – adopted by voice
Roll call vote for passage out of committee: 6/4 (Ayes: Latz, Oumou Verbeten, Carlson, Pappas, Seeberger, Westlin; Nays: Limmer, Eichorn, Howe, Kreun)
Senator Latz moved that S.F. 1116, as amended, recommended to pass and re-referred to the Finance Committee. - MOTION PREVAILED.
Testifiers: Brian Gosch (State Director, NRA); Karl Kaufman (NRA member); Ben Dorr (Director, Minnesota Gun Rights)
Senator Latz moved that S.F. 2827, be recommended to pass and re-referred to the Finance Committee. - MOTION PREVAILED.
Testifiers: Chief Jay Henthorne (Richfield, MN Chiefs of Police Association); Robert Small; Dr. Laurel Ries (President-elect, MN Medical Association); Bob Jacobson (Commissioner, Dept of Public Safety); Melissa Kennedy (Family medicine provider, Wright County; gun violence survivor); Dick Davis (Giffords Gun Owners for Safety); Sue Abderholden (Exec Director, NAMI Minnesota); Sami Rahamin (Director of Communications and Community Affairs, Jewish Community Relations Council); Gretchen Damon (Moms Demand Action); Megan Walsh; Leah Kondes (Moms Demand Action); Maggie Salman (Students Demand Action (virtual)); Kelly Roskam (Director of Law and Policy, Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions (virtual)); Ramya Swami (State Policy Manager – Brady (virtual)); Ben Dorr (Executive Director, Minnesota Gun Rights); Brian Gosch (State Director, NRA); Karl Kaufman (NRA member); Rob Doar (VP, MN Gun Owners Caucus);
A-2: Latz offers as amended, adopted by voice
Oral amendment to A-2: line 13.10 – 13.12 delete the sentence “If the law enforcement agency does not receive written notice from the respondent within three business days, the agency may charge a reasonable fee to store the respondent’s firearms.”
Oral amendment to A-2: 9.27 delete “624.7144” and insert “624.7174” – Latz moves, adopted by voice
Senator Latz moved that S.F. 1117, as amended, recommended to pass and re-referred to the Finance Committee. - MOTION PREVAILED.
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Senator Ron Latz, Chair |
Diana Rico, Legislative Assistant |