HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
COMMITTEE ON MILITARY, VETERANS AND HOMELAND SECURITY
REP. BEAU M LAFAVE
CHAIR
COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
12:00 PM
Room 307, House Office Building
The House Standing Committee on Military, Veterans and Homeland Security was called to
order by Chair LaFave.
The Chair requested attendance be called:
Present: Reps. LaFave, Mueller, Marino, Afendoulis, Markkanen, Jones, Chirkun, Tyrone
Carter, Manoogian.
Absent/Excused: None.
At 12:01 PM, the Chair laid the committee at ease.
At 12:07 PM, the Chair called the committee back to order.
Representative Jones moved to adopt the meeting minutes from January 28, 2020. There being
no objection, the motion prevailed by unanimous consent.
The Chair laid HB 5272 before the committee:
HB 5272
(Rep. Wakeman)
A bill to amend 1927 PA 372,
entitled "An act to regulate and license the selling,
purchasing, possessing, and carrying of certain firearms, gas
ejecting devices, and electro-muscular disruption devices; to
prohibit the buying, selling, or carrying of certain firearms,
gas ejecting devices, and electro-muscular disruption devices
without a license or other authorization; to provide for the
forfeiture of firearms and electro-muscular disruption
devices under certain circumstances; to provide for penalties
and remedies; to provide immunity from civil liability under
certain circumstances; to prescribe the powers and duties of
certain state and local agencies; to prohibit certain conduct
against individuals who apply for or receive a license to
carry a concealed pistol; to make appropriations; to prescribe
certain conditions for the appropriations; and to repeal all
acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act," by
amending sections 5b and 5o (MCL 28.425b and 28.425o),
as amended by 2017 PA 95.
Representative Wakeman introduced the bill. Questions and discussion followed.
The following people submitted a card in opposition to HB 5272, but did not wish to speak:
Rebecca Shiemke, representing the Michigan Poverty Law Program.
Frank Foster, representing the Everytown for Gun Safety.
Kathy Hagenian, representing the Michigan Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence.
Jess Averill-Hamond, representing the Michigan Domestic and Sexual Violence Prevention
and Treatment Board.
There being no further business before the committee, Rep. Beau LaFave adjourned the meeting
at 12:41 PM.
Representative Beau LaFave, Chair
Matt Carnagie
Committee Clerk
mcarnagie@house.mi.gov