Date	Chamber	Action
3/18/2005	Senate	Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Rules

Statutes Amended In Order of Appearance

720 ILCS 5/47-5

Synopsis As Introduced
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that it is a public nuisance to operate a business that sells or delivers firearms without taking reasonable precautions to ensure that the firearms are not to be used or possessed illegally by the purchaser or transferee, or acquired by an individual without complying with procedures required by law for the sale or transfer of firearms. Provides that the precautions shall include, but are not limited to, the refusal to sell a firearm to a person: (i) the seller or deliverer knows or has reason to know is purchasing the firearm on behalf of another person who could not legally purchase the firearm, (ii) that has provided a home address in a municipality or county in which possession of that type of firearm is illegal, and (iii) the seller or deliverer otherwise knows or has reason to know will use the firearm illegally.

Actions 

Date	Chamber	Action
2/23/2005	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. Ira I. Silverstein
2/23/2005	Senate	First Reading
2/23/2005	Senate	Referred to Rules
3/2/2005	Senate	Assigned to Judiciary
3/9/2005	Senate	Postponed - Judiciary
3/16/2005	Senate	Held in Judiciary
3/17/2005	Senate	Postponed - Judiciary
3/18/2005	Senate	Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Rules
3/30/2005	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Martin A. Sandoval

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