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SB 429Prohibits a gun dealer from transferring a firearm or unfinished frame or receiver until 72 hours have elapsed from the time the gun dealer requested a criminal background check, and the gun dealer has received the background check approval number from the Department of State Police.

Congress · introduced 2024-12-31

Digest: The Act requires gun dealers to wait 72 hours from the time of asking for a background check, and to have the approval number from the check, before giving a firearm or certain unfinished firearm parts to a buyer. The Act takes effect on the 91st day after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.7). Prohibits a gun dealer from transferring a firearm or unfinished frame or receiver until 72 hours have elapsed from the time the gun dealer requested a criminal background check, and the gun dealer has received the background check approval number from the Department of State Police. Provides that a gun dealer who has the approval number and allows the required time period to elapse before transfer has immunity from civil liability for use of the transferred firearm or unfinished frame or receiver by the purchaser. Takes effect on the 91st day following sine die.

Latest action: In Senate Committee

Sponsors

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Inbound (6)

datefromtypeamountrolesource
2024-12-31Frederick, Lewcosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2024-12-31Manning Jr., Jamessponsor_of_billsponsorsponsorship
2024-12-31Meek, Markcosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2024-12-31Prozanski, Floydsponsor_of_billsponsorsponsorship
2024-12-31Reynolds, Lisacosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2024-12-31Sollman, Janeencosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship

Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

#MemberRoleSpeechesVotedScore
1Manning Jr., James (D, state_upper OR-7)sponsor05
2Prozanski, Floyd (D, state_upper OR-4)sponsor05
3Frederick, Lew (D, state_upper OR-22)cosponsor01
4Meek, Mark (D, state_upper OR-20)cosponsor01
5Reynolds, Lisa (D, state_upper OR-17)cosponsor01
6Sollman, Janeen (D, state_upper OR-15)cosponsor01

Predicted vote

Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.

0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

Activity

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  1. 2024-12-31 · cosponsored by Sollman, Janeen (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  2. 2024-12-31 · sponsored by Prozanski, Floyd (sponsor) · sponsorship
  3. 2024-12-31 · cosponsored by Meek, Mark (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  4. 2024-12-31 · cosponsored by Frederick, Lew (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  5. 2024-12-31 · cosponsored by Reynolds, Lisa (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  6. 2024-12-31 · sponsored by Manning Jr., James (sponsor) · sponsorship

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