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Committee approves sending bill to expand carry rights on routinely open public property to the House floor
Summary
The House State Affairs Committee voted to send House Bill 376 to the floor with a do-pass recommendation after debate over whether the measure reverses a state supreme court decision and how it would apply to leased or ticketed events on public property.
Representative Dale Hawkins introduced House Bill 376 to the Idaho House State Affairs Committee as a measure to clarify where people may carry firearms on government-owned property that is “normally and habitually open to the public.” "This legislation concerns the right to carry firearm on certain public property in the state of Idaho," Hawkins said.
The bill would remove three exceptions left in last year's legislation and make explicit that places of public property that are normally and habitually open and commonly used would remain open to lawful carry even when a particular event occurs there. "If it passes, then all public property, all government owned property that is normally and officially open…
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