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Arizona House rejects floor amendment to require CCW training; Senate Bill 10-20 advances
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Summary
A proposed Marquez floor amendment to require eight hours of concealed-carry training, including live-fire instruction, failed on the House floor. The underlying Senate Bill 10-20 was advanced after debate.
A floor amendment to Senate Bill 10-20 that would have reinstated an eight-hour training requirement and a live-fire component for concealed carry weapons permits failed on the Arizona House floor Wednesday, and the underlying bill was advanced.
The amendment, introduced by Representative Christian Marquez, would have required an eight-hour training course that, according to Marquez, “covers legal issues relating to the use of deadly force, weapons care and maintenance, mental conditioning for the use of deadly force, safe handling and storage of weapons, marksmanship, [and] judgmental shooting,” and would have included a live-fire training requirement.
Marquez urged colleagues to adopt the amendment as a “common sense” safety measure that brings Arizona back to “the concealed carry weapons training requirements that Arizona had before.” Representative Lupe De Los Santos asked Marquez to confirm his statement that “there’s 0 hours required in the training to get a CCW in the state of Arizona at this time,” and Marquez replied that no hours or live-fire instruction are required under current law.
Opponents framed the amendment as an infringement on constitutional rights. Representative Kupperer (appearing in debate as Representative Kupperer/Copper in the transcript) cited the Second Amendment and urged a no vote. Representative Terri Powell said the U.S. Constitution contains “no language…that says we have to take training for CCWs.” Other speakers, including Representative Collin, emphasized the Arizona Constitution’s protections for bearing arms.
The Marquez floor amendment failed after a division vote. The clerk recorded “by your votes of 19 ayes and 31 nays, you have failed to pass the floor amendment.” A subsequent roll-call attempt to amend the committee report likewise failed with the House recording 19 ayes and 32 nays on the substitute motion to amend the committee of the whole report.
Despite the failed amendment, the House proceeded to advance Senate Bill 10-20 on a voice vote after debate; the chair stated, “It appears the ayes have it. Do have it. So ordered,” recording the bill as receiving a do-pass recommendation from the committee of the whole and moving it forward for further consideration.
Discussion vs. decision: the record shows extensive floor debate about the training amendment (discussion), a formal roll-call and division that rejected the amendment (decision), and then a voice vote advancing SB 10-20 (formal action). The transcript does not show additional amendments adopted to SB 10-20 on the floor beyond the defeated Marquez amendment.
Votes at a glance: Marquez floor amendment to SB 10-20 — failed (division; clerk recorded 19 ayes, 31 nays). SB 10-20 — advanced (voice vote; chair announced ayes prevailed).
