H.E.A. 1284, P.L. 107
Effective: July 1, 2019; §6-7 effective April 26, 2019
- Designates the following as voter registration offices: (1) Each office affiliated with the Indiana state police. (2) Each office affiliated with the sheriff of a county. (3) Each office affiliated with a municipal law enforcement agency.
- Provides immunity for a justified use of force in certain instances. [§6 & 7]
- Requires a court to award, in certain instances, reasonable attorney’s fees and costs to a defendant when the justified use of force immunity is successfully raised. [§6]
- Permits a person who may legally possess a firearm to possess a firearm on school property if the person possessesthe firearm: (1) as an employee or volunteer of a house of worship located on the school property; or (2) while attending a worship service or religious ceremony conducted at a house of worship.
- Increases the duration of a four year handgun license to five years.
- Provides that an individual may simultaneously hold both a five-year license and a lifetime license.
- Requires a law enforcement officer to whom an application for a handgun license is made to consult available local, state, and federal criminal history data banks, including the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), when determining whether possession of a firearm by an applicant would be a violation of state or federal law.
- Modifies the fees for five year licenses beginning July 1, 2020.
Read the bill at: http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2019/bills/house/1284