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House advances firearms-in-vehicles measure with technical amendments; members push back on mandatory five‑year revocation
Summary
House sponsors advanced a bill to revoke driving privileges for anyone who discharges a firearm or uses an incendiary device from a vehicle; prosecutors’ technical amendments were accepted but members questioned an uncompromising five-year mandatory revocation for juveniles.
Representative Suazo presented House Bill 5, a public-safety measure to mandate driver’s-license revocation for a person who discharges a firearm or uses an incendiary device from a vehicle. Sponsor language emphasized the bill targets drive-by shootings and other vehicle-based weapons offenses; amendments keyed cross-references to existing criminal statutes and clarified that the measure addresses passengers who discharge weapons during drive‑bys.
Suazo cited local gang statistics to justify urgency: the…
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