HB 1099 — An Act amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in firearms and other dangerous articles, providing for the offense of undetectable firearms.

Congress · introduced 2025-04-01

Latest action: — (Remarks see House Journal Page 1384-1386), Sept. 30, 2025

Action timeline

2025-04-01 · house — Referred to JUDICIARY, April 1, 2025
2025-09-23 · house — Reported as committed, Sept. 23, 2025
2025-09-23 · house — First consideration, Sept. 23, 2025
2025-09-23 · house — Laid on the table, Sept. 23, 2025
2025-09-23 · house — Removed from table, Sept. 23, 2025
2025-09-29 · house — Second consideration, Sept. 29, 2025
2025-09-29 · house — Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS, Sept. 29, 2025
2025-09-30 · house — Re-reported as committed, Sept. 30, 2025
2025-09-30 · house — Third consideration and defeated on final passage, Sept. 30, 2025 (101-102)
2025-09-30 · house — Motion to reconsider final passage, Sept. 30, 2025
2026-05-13 · house — (Remarks see House Journal Page 1384-1386), Sept. 30, 2025

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Bill text

Printer's No. 1213 · 2,772 characters · source document

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PRINTER'S NO.   1213

                      THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                          HOUSE BILL
                          No. 1099
                                                 Session of
                                                   2025

     INTRODUCED BY CEPHAS, KENYATTA, GIRAL, KINKEAD, VENKAT, WAXMAN,
        BURGOS, HOHENSTEIN, FIEDLER, SANCHEZ, KHAN, HANBIDGE, GUENST,
        WARREN, HILL-EVANS, SCHLOSSBERG, CEPEDA-FREYTIZ, MALAGARI,
        DONAHUE, FREEMAN, WEBSTER, O'MARA, CERRATO, GREEN, BOROWSKI,
        BRENNAN, ISAACSON AND FRANKEL, APRIL 1, 2025

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, APRIL 1, 2025


                                      AN ACT
 1   Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
 2      Consolidated Statutes, in firearms and other dangerous
 3      articles, providing for the offense of undetectable firearms.
 4      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 5   hereby enacts as follows:
 6      Section 1.     Title 18 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
 7   Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
 8   § 6143.    Undetectable firearms.
 9      (a)    Offense defined.--It shall be unlawful for a person to
10   manufacture, import, sell, ship, deliver, possess, transfer or
11   receive a firearm constructed entirely of a nonmetal substance,
12   or a firearm that does not include at least one major component
13   of a firearm constructed entirely of a metal substance,
14   including a barrel, slide, cylinder, frame or receiver, which
15   meets any of the following:
16             (1)   After removal of all parts other than major
17      components, the firearm is not detectable as the security
 1      exemplar by walk-through metal detectors that are calibrated
 2      and operated to detect the security exemplar.
 3            (2)   The firearm includes a major component of which,
 4      when subject to inspection by the types of detection devices
 5      commonly used at airports for security screening, does not
 6      generate an image that accurately depicts the shape of the
 7      component.
 8      (b)   Grading.--An offense under this section constitutes a
 9   felony of the third degree.
10      (c)   Definitions.--As used in this section, the following
11   words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this
12   subsection unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
13      "Major component."    With respect to a firearm, the term shall
14   include any of the following:
15            (1)   The barrel.
16            (2)   The slide or cylinder.
17            (3)   The frame or receiver.
18      Section 2.    This act shall take effect in 60 days.




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Outbound (2)

date	type	to	amount	role	source
—	referred_to_committee	Pennsylvania House Appropriations Committee	—		pa-leg
—	referred_to_committee	Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee	—		pa-leg

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Committees

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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.

#	Member	Role	Voted	Score
1	Morgan Cephas (D, state_lower PA-192)	sponsor	—	5
2	Abigail Salisbury (D, state_lower PA-34)	cosponsor	—	1
3	Anthony A. Bellmon (D, state_lower PA-203)	cosponsor	—	1
4	Arvind Venkat (D, state_lower PA-30)	cosponsor	—	1
5	Ben Waxman (D, state_lower PA-182)	cosponsor	—	1
6	Benjamin V. Sanchez (D, state_lower PA-153)	cosponsor	—	1
7	Brandon J. Markosek (D, state_lower PA-25)	cosponsor	—	1
8	Carol Hill-Evans (D, state_lower PA-95)	cosponsor	—	1
9	Carol Kazeem (D, state_lower PA-159)	cosponsor	—	1
10	Christina D. Sappey (D, state_lower PA-158)	cosponsor	—	1
11	Dan Frankel (D, state_lower PA-23)	cosponsor	—	1
12	Dan K. Williams (D, state_lower PA-74)	cosponsor	—	1
13	Daniel J. Deasy (D, state_lower PA-27)	cosponsor	—	1
14	Danielle Friel Otten (D, state_lower PA-155)	cosponsor	—	1
15	Danilo Burgos (D, state_lower PA-197)	cosponsor	—	1
16	Dave Madsen (D, state_lower PA-104)	cosponsor	—	1
17	David M. Delloso (D, state_lower PA-162)	cosponsor	—	1
18	Eddie DAY Pashinski (D, state_lower PA-121)	cosponsor	—	1
19	Elizabeth Fiedler (D, state_lower PA-184)	cosponsor	—	1
20	Emily Kinkead (D, state_lower PA-20)	cosponsor	—	1
21	G. Roni Green (D, state_lower PA-190)	cosponsor	—	1
22	Greg Vitali (D, state_lower PA-166)	cosponsor	—	1
23	Heather Boyd (D, state_lower PA-163)	cosponsor	—	1
24	Jeanne McNeill (D, state_lower PA-133)	cosponsor	—	1
25	Jen Mazzocco (D, state_lower PA-42)	cosponsor	—	1

Predicted vote

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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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2026-05-20 · was referred to Pennsylvania House Appropriations Committee · pa-leg
2026-05-20 · was referred to Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee · pa-leg

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