An Act Designating the Chief of the State Police as the Only Issuing Authority of a Pennit To Carry a Concealed Handgun
Maine Legislature, Session 126, LD 0222
Committee Amendment CA_A_H730 (House)
Amends: 25 MRSA §2002, 25 MRSA §2002-A, 25 MRSA §2003

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "fj" to H.P. 183, L.D. 222, Bill, "An Act 
Designating the Chief of the State Police as the Only Issuing Authority of a Pennit To 
Carry a Concealed Handgun" 
Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following: 
'An Act Regarding the Issuance of a Permit To Carry a Concealed Handgun' 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and before the 
summary and inserting the following: 
'Sec. 1. 25 MRSA §2002, sub-§9, ~A, as enacted by PL 1993, c. 524, §2, is 
amended to read: 
A. To a legal resident of a municipality: 
(1) The mayor and municipal officers or councilors of a city, the municipal 
officers or councilors of a tov/n or the assessors of a plantation or, if they so 
choose, their full time chief of police as their designee full-time chief of police of 
a municipality; or 
(2) The Chief of the State Police as the designee of the municipal officers under 
section 2002 A.; 
(3) The Chief of the State Police if the municipality does not have a full-time 
chief of police unless the municipality designates the county sheriff of the county 
where the municipality is primarily located as its designee under section 2002-A; 
Sec. 2. 25 MRSA §2002-A, as amended by PL 1993, c. 524, §4, is further 
amended to read: 
§2002-A. Assignment of authority 
The municipal officers of a municipality without a full-time chief of police may 
designate, if the Chief of the State Police county sheriff agrees, the State Police county 
sheriff of the county where the municipality is primarily located as the issuing authority 
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for that municipality. The designation must be made by written agreement with the Ghlef 
of the State Police county sheriff. The agreement must include provisions for termination 
of the agreement. During the term of an agreement, the State Police county sheriff shall 
perform all the functions of the issuing authority, including suspension and revocation of 
permits. The State Police are county sheriff is entitled to receive any fees authorized for 
performing the functions of an issuing authority. The Chief of the State Police county 
sheriff continues to serve as the issuing authority until the €hHH county sheriff receives 
from the municipal officers written notice of cancellation or revocation of the 
designation. 
Sec. 3. 25 MRSA §2003, sub-§l, ~-1 is enacted to read: 
B-1. If a nonresident, has a valid concealed handgun permit from that nonresident's 
state of residency. This paragraph does not apply to a nonresident whose state of 
residency does not require a permit to carrv a concealed handgun; 
Sec.4. 25 MRSA §2003, sub-§l, "n and E, as amended by PL 2011, c. 298, 
§ 7, are further amended to read: 
D. Submits an application that contains the following: 
(1) Full name; 
(2) Full current address and addresses for the prior 5 years; 
(3) The date and place of birth, height, weight, color of eyes, color of hair, sex 
and race; 
(4) A record of previous issuances of, refusals to issue and revocations of a 
permit to carry concealed firearms, handguns or other concealed weapons by any 
issuing authority in the State or any other jurisdiction. The record of previous 
refusals alone does not constitute cause for refusal and the record of previous 
revocations alone constitutes cause for refusal only as provided in section 2005; 
and 
(5) Ans,\vers Subject to subsection 2-A, answers to the following questions: 
(a) Are you less than 18 years of age? 
(b) Is there a formal charging instrument now pending against you in this 
State for a crime under the laws of this State that is punishable by 
imprisonment for a term of one year or more? 
(c) Is there a formal charging instrument now pending against you in any 
federal court for a crime under the laws of the United States that is 
punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year? 
(d) Is there a formal charging instrument now pending against you in another 
state for a crime that, under the laws of that state, is punishable by a term of 
imprisonment exceeding one year? 
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(e) If your answer to the question in division (d) is "yes," is that charged 
crime classified under the laws of that state as a misdemeanor punishable by 
a term of imprisonment of 2 years or less? 
(t) Is there a formal charging instrument pending against you in another state 
for a crime punishable in that state by a term of imprisonment of 2 years or 
less and classified by that state as a misdemeanor, but that is substantially 
similar to a crime that under the laws of this State is punishable by 
imprisonment for a term of one year or more? 
(g) Is there a formal charging instrument now pending against you under the 
laws of the United States, this State or any other state or the Passamaquoddy 
Tribe or Penobscot Nation in a proceeding in which the prosecuting authority 
has pleaded that you committed the crime with the use of a firearm against a 
person or with the use of a dangerous weapon as defined in Title 17-A, 
section 2, subsection 9, paragraph A? 
(h) Is there a formal charging instrument now pending against you in this or 
any other jurisdiction for a juvenile offense that, if committed by an adult, 
would be a crime described in division (b), (c), (d) or (t) and involves bodily 
injury or threatened bodily injury against another person? 
(i) Is there a formal charging instrument now pending against you in this or 
any other jurisdiction for a juvenile offense that, if committed by an adult, 
would be a crime described in division (g)? 
(j) Is there a formal charging instrument now pending against you in this or 
any other jurisdiction for a juvenile offense that, if committed by an adult, 
would be a crime described in division (b), (c), (d) or (t), but does not 
involve bodily injury or threatened bodily injury against another person? 
(k) Have you ever been convicted of committing or found not criminally 
responsible by reason of mental disease or defect of committing a crime 
described in division (b), (c), (t) or (g)? 
(1) Have you ever been convicted of committing or found not criminally 
responsible by reason of mental disease or defect of committing a crime 
described in division (d)? 
(m) If your answer to the question in division (1) is "yes," was that crime 
classified under the laws of that state as a misdemeanor punishable by a term 
of imprisonment of 2 years or less? 
(n) Have you ever been adjudicated as having committed a juvenile offense 
described in division (h) or (i)? 
(0) Have you ever been adjudicated as having committed a juvenile offense 
described in division (j)? 
(p) Are you currently subject to an order of a Maine court or an order of a 
court of the United States or another state, territory, commonwealth or tribe 
that restrains you from harassing, stalking or threatening your intimate 
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partner, as defined in 18 United States Code, Section 921(a), or a child of 
your intimate partner, or from engaging in other conduct that would place 
your intimate partner in reasonable fear of bodily injury to that intimate 
partner or the child? 
(q) Are you a fugitive from justice? 
(r) Are you a drug abuser, drug addict or drug dependent person? 
(s) 
Do you have a mental disorder that causes you to be potentially 
dangerous to yourself or others? 
(t) Have you been adjudicated to be an incapacitated person pursuant to Title 
18-A, Article 5, Parts 3 and 4 and not had that designation removed by an 
order under Title 18-A, section 5-307, subsection (b)? 
(u) Have you been dishonorably discharged from the military forces within 
the past 5 years? 
(v) Are you an illegal alien? 
(w) Have you been convicted in a Maine court of a violation of Title 17 -A, 
section 1057 within the past 5 years? 
(x) Have you been adjudicated in a Maine court within the past 5 years as 
having committed a juvenile offense involving conduct that, if committed by 
an adult, would be a violation of Title 17-A, section 1057? 
(y) To your knowledge, have you been the subject of an investigation by any 
law enforcement agency within the past 5 years regarding the alleged abuse 
by you of family or household members? 
(z) Have you been convicted in any jurisdiction within the past 5 years of 3 
or more crimes punishable by a term of imprisonment of less than one year or 
of crimes classified under the laws of a state as a misdemeanor and 
punishable by a term of imprisonment of 2 years or less? 
(aa) Have you been adjudicated in any jurisdiction within the past 5 years to 
have committed 3 or more juvenile offenses described in division (o)? 
(bb) To your knowledge, have you engaged within the past 5 years in 
reckless or negligent conduct that has been the subject of an investigation by 
a governmental entity? 
(cc) Have you been convicted in a Maine court within the past 5 years of any 
Title 17-A, chapter 45 drug crime? 
(dd) Have you been adjudicated in a Maine court within the past 5 years as 
having committed a juvenile offense involving conduct that, if committed by 
an adult, would have been a violation of Title 17 -A, chapter 45? 
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(ee) Have you been adjudged in a Maine COUlt to have committed the civil 
violation of possession of a useable amount of marijuana, butyl nitrite or 
isobutyl nitrite in violation of Title 22, section 2383 within the past 5 years? 
(ff) Have you been adjudicated in a Maine court within the past 5 years as 
having committed the juvenile crime defined in Title 15, section 3103, 
subsection 1, paragraph B of possession of a useable amount of marijuana, as 
provided in Title 22, section 2383?; and 
E. Does the following: 
(1) At the request of the issuing authority or the State Police, takes whatever 
action is required by law to allow the issuing authority or the State Police to 
obtain from the Department of Health and Human Services, limited to records of 
patient committals to Riverview Psychiatric Center and Dorothea Dix Psychiatric 
Center or any other state mental health institute or nonstate mental health 
institution within the State, the courts, law enforcement agencies and the military 
infonnation relevant to the following: 
(a) The ascertainment of whether the infonnation supplied on the application 
or any documents made a part of the application is true and correct; 
(b) The ascertainment of whether each of the additional requirements of this 
section has been met; and 
(c) Section 2005; 
(2) If a photogF&j9h is afl: integral part of the permit to carry concealed handguns 
adopted by an issuing authority, submits At the request of the issuing authority, 
submits to being photographed for that purpose a pennit to carry a concealed 
handgun; 
(3) If it becomes necessary to resolve any questions as to identity, submits to 
having fingerprints taken by the issuing authority; 
(4) Submits an application fee along with the written application to the proper 
issuing authority pursuant to the following schedule: 
(a) Resident of a municipality or unorganized territory, ~ 
$52.50 for an 
original application and $;W $52.50 for a renewal, except that a person who 
paid $60 for a concealed fireanns pennit or renewal during 1991 or 1992 is 
entitled to a credit toward renewal fees in an amount equal to $30 for a 
person who paid $60 for an original application and $45 for a person who 
paid $60 for a pennit renewal. The credit is valid until fully utilized; and 
(b) Nonresident, $@ $120 for an original or renewal application; and 
(c) Resident, $15 to replace a valid concealed handgun pennit issued on or 
before January 1, 2016 with a pennit issued under subsection 9; and 
(5) Demonstrates to the issuing authority a knowledge of handgun safety. The 
applicant may fully satisfy this requirement by submitting to the issuing 
authority, through documentation in accordance with this subparagraph, proof 
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that the applicant has within 5 years prior to the date of application completed a 
course that included handgun safety offered by or under the supervision of a 
federal, state, county or municipal law enforcement agency or a firearms 
instructor certified by a private firearms association recognized as knowledgeable 
in matters of handgun safety by the issuing authority or by the state in which the 
course was taken. 
A course completion certificate or other document, or a 
photocopy, is sufficient if it recites or otherwise demonstrates that the course 
meets all of the requirements of this subparagraph. 
As an alternative way of fully satisfying this requirement, an applicant may 
personally demonstrate knowledge of handgun safety to an issuing authority, if 
the issuing authority is willing to evaluate an applicant's personal demonstration 
of such knowledge. The issuing authority is not required to offer this 2nd option. 
The demonstration of knowledge of handgun safety to the issuing authority may 
not be required of any applicant who holds a valid state pennit to carry a 
concealed fireann as of April 15, 1990 or of any applicant who was or is in any 
of the Armed Forces of the United States and has received at least basic fireanns 
training. 
Sec. 5. 25 MRSA §2003, sub-§2, as amended by PL 2003, c. 341, §§5 to 8, is 
further amended to read: 
2. Complete application; certification by applicant. The requirements set out in 
subsection 1, constitute a complete application. By affixing the applicant's signature to 
the application, the applicant certifies the following: 
A. That the statements the applicant makes in the application and any documents the 
applicant makes a part of the application are true and correct; 
A-I. That the applicant understands that an affirmative answer to the question in. 
subsection 1, paragraph D, subparagraph (5), division (1) or (0) is cause for refusal 
unless the applicant is nonetheless authorized to possess a firearm under Title 15, 
section 393; 
A-2. That the applicant understands that an affirmative answer to subsection 1, 
paragraph D, subparagraph (5), division (p) is cause for refusal if the order of the 
court meets the preconditions contained in Title 15, section 393, subsection 1, 
paragraph D. If the order of the court does not meet the preconditions, the conduct 
underlying the order may be used by the issuing authority, along with other 
information, in judging good moral character under subsection 4; 
B. That the applicant understands that an affirmative answer to one or more of the 
questions in subsection 1, paragraph D, subparagraph (5), divisions (a), (k), (n) or (q) 
to (x) is cause for refusal; 
B-1. That the applicant understands that an affirmative answer to one or more of the 
questions in subsection 1, paragraph D, subparagraph (5), divisions (b) to (j), (m), (y), 
(z) or (aa) to (ff) is used by the issuing authority, along with other information, in 
judging good moral character under subsection 4; and 
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C. That the applicant understands any false statements made in the application or in 
any document made a part of the application may result in prosecution as provided in 
section 2004. 
An applicant may provide the applicant's signature by an electronic means approved by 
the State Police. 
Sec. 6. 25 MRSA §2003, sub-§2-A is enacted to read: 
2-A. Modification of guestions. The Attorney General may modify or reword the 
questions in subsection 1, paragraph D, subparagraph (5) to improve readability and 
clarity as long as the subject matter of the questions is retained. The Attorney General 
shall submit any proposed changes to those questions to the joint standing committee of 
the Legislature having jurisdiction over criminal justice and public safety matters for 
reVIew. 
Sec. 7. 25 MRSA §2003, sub-§3-A, as amended by PL 2011, c. 298, §7, is 
further amended to read: 
3-A. 
Model forms. 
The Attorney General shall develop model forms for the 
following: 
A. An application for a resident pennit to carry concealed handguns; 
B. An application for a nonresident pennit to carry concealed handguns; and 
C. 
A. resident pennit to carry concealed handguns of 'Nhich a photograph is an 
integral part; 
D. A resident permit to carry concealed handguns of v/hich a photograph is not an 
integral part; 
E. A nonresident pennit to carry concealed handguns; and 
F. 
Authority to release information to the issuing authority for the purpose of 
evaluating inforrnation supplied on the application. 
Bash An issuing authority shall utilize only the model forms. 
Sec. 8. 25 MRSA §2003, sub-§5, as amended by PL 1995, c. 694, Pt. D, §52 and 
affected by Pt. E, §2 and amended by PL 2005, c. 236, §§3 and 4, is further amended to 
read: 
5. Access to confidential records. Notwithstanding that certain records retained by 
governmental entities are by law made confidential, the records pertaining to patient 
committals to any state mental health institute or nonstate mental health institution, 
including, but not limited to, Riverview Psychiatric Center and Dorothea Dix Psychiatric 
Center, and records compiled pursuant to Title 19-A, section 4012, subsection 1, that are 
necessary to the issuing authority's deterrnination of the applicant's good moral character 
and compliance with the additional requirements of this section and of section 2005 must, 
at the request of the issuing authority, be made available for inspection by and 
dissemination to the issuing authority. 
Sec. 9. 25 MRSA §2003, sub-§§8 and 9, as amended by PL 2011, c. 298, §7, are 
further amended to read: 
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8. Term of permit. All concealed handgun permits are valid for 4- 2. years from the 
date of issue, unless sooner revoked for cause by the issuing authority. If a permit 
renewal is issued before the expiration date of the permit being renewed or within 6 
months of the expiration date of the permit being renewed, the permit renewal is valid for 
4- 2. years from the expiration date of the permit being renewed. 
9. Permit form. Each permit to carry concealed handguns issued must contain fiy 
January 1, 2016, the State Police shall develop and make available a concealed handgun 
permit that contains the following components: 
The name, the address, a recent 
photograph and f!: physical description of the pennit holder; the holder's signature; the 
date of issuance; and the date of expiration. A permit to carry concealed hafldguns may 
additioflally cOfltaifl a photograph of the permit holder if the issuing authority makes a 
photograph an ifltegral part of the permit to carry concealed handguns. An issuing 
authority shall use this form and every issued permit must include the designated 
information. At the request of an issuing authority, the Secretary of State may provide a 
photograph of the applicant to be incorporated into that applicant's permit to carry a 
concealed handgun. 
Sec. 10. 25 MRSA §2003, sub-§15, as enacted by PL 1993, c. 524, §12, is 
amended to read: 
15. Duty of issuing authority; application fees. The application fees submitted by 
the applicant as required by subsection 1, paragraph E, subparagraph (4) are subject to the 
following. 
A. If the issuing authority is other than the Chief of the State Police, ~ 
$42.50 of 
the fee for an original application and W-ef the fee for a renewal and $10 of the fee 
for an application to replace a valid permit with a pennit issued by the State Police on 
or after January 1, 2016 must be paid over to the Treasurer of State. 
B. If the Chief of the State Police is the issuing authority as the designee of a 
municipality under sectiofl 2002 A, $25 of the fee for an original application and $15 
of the fee for a reflewal must be paid over to the Treasurer of State. 
C. If the Chief of the State Police is the issuing authority because the applicant is 
either a resident of an unorganized territory or a nonresident, the application fee must 
be paid over to the Treasurer of State. The fee must be aoolied to the e~menses of 
administration iflcUlTed by the State Police. 
The fees paid over to the Treasurer of State pursuant to this subsection must be deposited 
in the State Police's licensing and enforcement account to be used solely to cover the 
costs incurred by the state police for the development and issuance of concealed handgun 
permits. 
Sec. 11. 25 MRSA §2003, sub-§16, as amended by PL 2011, c. 298, §7, is 
further amended to read: 
16. Application fee; use. The application fee submitted by the applicant as required 
by subsection 1, paragraph E, subparagraph (4) covers the cost of processing the 
application by the issuing authority and the cost of developing the permit to carry 
concealed handguns issued by the issuing authority. 
Sec. 12. 25 MRSA §2003, sub-§§18 and 19 are enacted to read: 
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18. Submission of information to the State Police. The issuing authority shall 
provide infonnation received from an applicant pursuant to subsection 1 to the State 
Police for purposes of a criminal history record check, a mental health record check and a 
Department of the Secretary of State, Bureau of Motor Vehicles record check The State 
Police shall provide the results of its record checks to the issuing authority for 
consideration before the issuing authority makes a final detennination on the application. 
Unless the State Police is the issuing authority as provided for in section 2002, subsection 
9, the State Police does not have the authority to approve or deny an application for a 
concealed handgun permit 
19. 
Confidential database. 
The State Police shall establish and maintain a 
confidential database accessible only by a law enforcement agency or law enforcement 
officers for criminal justice and concealed handgun pennit purposes or by court order 
containing the following information about a pennit holder or an applicant for a 
concealed handgun pennit: 
A. Name; 
B. Address; 
C. Date of birth; 
D. Pennit infonnation; 
E. Status of the pennit; and 
F. Prior action taken on the pennit. 
The database must be accessible by a law enforcement agency or law enforcement officer 
at any time. Infonnation about a pennit holder or an applicant must be purged from the 
database within 5 years after the pennit expires or after the period for an appeal on a 
denial or a revocation of a pennit has run. 
Sec. 13. Application. This Act does not apply to a valid concealed handgun 
pennit issued before the effective date of this Act. 
An application for a concealed 
handgun pennit or the renewal of a valid concealed handgun permit on or after the 
effective date of this Act is subject to the provisions of this Act. 
Sec. 14. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and 
allocations are made. 
PUBLIC SAFETY, DEPARTMENT OF 
Licensing and Enforcement - Public Safety 0712 
Initiative: Provides an allocation of concealed handgun permit fees to establish and 
maintain a confidential database. 
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS 
All Other 
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS TOTAL 
2013-14 
$0 
$0 
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$270,136 
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Licensing and Enforcement - Public Safety 0712 
Initiative: Provides an allocation of concealed handgun permit fees for 2 Office Associate 
II positions and one State Police Detective position to maintain a confidential database of 
concealed handgun permits and to perform record checks on applicants. 
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS 
Personal Services 
OTHERSPEC~LREVENUEFUNDSTOTAL 
PUBLIC SAFETY, DEPARTMENT OF 
DEPARTMENT TOTALS 
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS 
DEPARTMENT TOTAL-ALL FUNDS 
2013-14 
$0 
$0 
2013-14 
$0 
$0 
2014-15 
$230,300 
$230,300 
2014-15 
$500,436 
$500,436 
Sec. 15. Effective date. That section of this Act that amends the Maine Revised 
Statutes, Title 25, section 2003, subsection 3-A takes effect January 1, 2016.' 
SUMMARY 
This amendment is the majority report and replaces the bill and does the following: 
1. It amends the definition of "issuing authority" to remove the authority of municipal 
officers and councilors and assessors of plantations to issue concealed handgun permits 
and makes the municipality's full-time chief of police the sole issuing authority for that 
municipality. If the municipality does not have a full-time chief of police, the Chief of 
the State Police is the issuing authority unless the municipality has an agreement with the 
county sheriff in the county in which the municipality is located to serve as that 
municipality's issuing authority; 
2. It provides that a nonresident must have a valid concealed handgun permit in that 
person's state of residence before that person is eligible for a Maine concealed handgun 
permit unless that person's state of residence does not require a permit to carry a 
concealed handgun; 
3. It provides that the State Police must conduct record checks on an applicant for a 
concealed handgun permit and provide that information to the issuing authority for 
consideration when processing the application. It expressly provides that unless the State 
Police is the issuing authority, the State Police does not have the power to issue or 
prevent the issuance of a concealed handgun permit. Only the issuing authority can make 
that determination; 
4. It requires the State Police to establish a confidential database containing 
information about concealed handgun permit holders and applicants for concealed 
handgun permits. It provides that the database must be accessible by law enforcement 
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agencies or law enforcement officers at any time and that information about a permit 
holder or an applicant must be purged from the database within 5 years after the permit 
expires or after the period for an appeal on a denial or a revocation of a permit has run; 
5. It authorizes the Attorney General to modify or reword the statutory application 
questions for a concealed handgun permit to improve readability and clarity as long as the 
subject matter of those questions is retained. It also requires the Attorney General to 
provide the proposed changes to the wording of the questions to the joint standing 
committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over criminal justice and public safety 
matters for review; 
6. It increases the application fee for a concealed handgun permit for a resident from 
$35 to $52.50 and for a renewal from $20 to $52.50 and for a nonresident from $60 to 
$120. It also extends the period a permit is valid from 4 years to 6 years; 
7. It allows applicants to provide signatures on concealed handgun permit 
applications by an electronic means approved by the State Police; 
8. It allows the holder of a valid resident concealed handgun permit issued before 
January 1, 2016 to replace that pennit with the new standard concealed handgun pennit 
developed by the State Police on or before January 1, 2016 for a fee of $15; 
9. It provides that, by January 1, 2016, the State Police must develop and make 
available a unifonn concealed handgun pennit fonn, which must be used by all issuing 
authorities; 
10. It provides that concealed handgun permit fees paid over to the Treasurer of State 
must be deposited in a special revenue account for the sole purpose of reimbursing the 
issuing authority for expenditures related to the development and the issuance of 
concealed handgun permits; 
11. It provides that the legislation does not apply to a valid concealed handgun 
permit issued before the effective date of the legislation. An application for a concealed 
handgun pennit or for renewal of a valid existing concealed handgun pennit submitted on 
or after the effective date ofthe legislation is subject to the provisions of the legislation; 
12. It makes the changes to the current types of concealed handgun model fonns the 
Attorney General must develop effective January 1, 2016 to coincide with the date the 
State Police must produce a unifonn concealed handgun pennit; 
13. 
It expands the issuing authority's access to records pertaining to patient 
committals to include all state mental health institutes and nonstate mental health 
institutions; and 
14. It adds an appropriations and allocations section. 
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LR 697(03) 
An Act Designating the Chief of the State Police as the Only Issuing Authority of a Permit To Carry a 
Concealed Handgun 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment ~ [fI, 131') ) 
Committee: Criminal Justice and Public Safety 
Net Cost (Savings) 
General Fund 
Appropriations/Allocations 
Other Special Revenue Funds 
Revenue 
General Fund 
Other Special Revenue Funds 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
FY 2013-14 
$0 
$0 
$0 
$0 
FY 2014-15 
$157,175 
$500,436 
($157,175) 
$740,557 
Projections 
FY 2015-16 
$157,175 
$240,436 
($157,175) 
$740,557 
Projections 
FY 2016-17 
$157,175 
$240,136 
($157,175) 
$740,557 
This amendment increases concealed handgun permit fees and dedicates all the revenue received. It would result in an 
increase in Other Special Revenue Funds revenue in the Department of Public Safety of $740,557 and a reduction in 
General Fund revenue of $157,175 in fiscal year 2014-15. The amendment also requires the State Police to perform 
all record checks on applicants and to create and maintain a confidential database of all concealed handgun permit 
holders and applicants. The bill includes an Other Special Revenue Funds allocation of $500,436 in fiscal year 2014-
for 2 Office Associate II positions, one State Police Detective position, one-time computer programming costs 
($260,000) and related costs. 
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