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Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1019: Weapons and Firearms

Did not advance Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted
  6. Did not advance

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 1019 is a bill introduced in the Florida House on February 25, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Weapons and Firearms. Primary sponsor: Christine Hunschofsky (Democratic). It lists 15 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (June 16, 2025): Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Weapons and Firearms; Requires background checks on persons involved in firearm sales or transfers; requires firearm sales or transfers to be conducted through licensed dealer; revises requirements for safe storage of firearms; revises criminal penalties; requires firearms be sold by dealers with trigger locks or gun cases; revises warnings to be posted in gun dealerships; requires certain materials to be given to gun purchasers; prohibits specified acts involving unfinished firearm frames or receivers; prohibits certain activities involving three-dimensional printer or CNC milling machine; creates Veteran's Firearm Suicide Reduction Task Force; requiring a report.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 15 · Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Christine HunschofskyPrimary sponsorDemocraticHouse95
Robin BartlemanCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse103
LaVon Bracy DavisCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate15
Fentrice DriskellCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse67
Anna EskamaniCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse42
Mike GottliebCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse102
Rita HarrisCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse44
Yvonne HinsonCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse21
Dotie JosephCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse108
Johanna LópezCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse43
Michele RaynerCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse62
Felicia RobinsonCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse104
Mitch RosenwaldCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse98
Kelly SkidmoreCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse92
Leonard SpencerCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse45
Susan ValdésCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse64

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
  2. Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  3. 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
  4. Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
  5. Referred to Commerce Committee
  6. Referred to Budget Committee
  7. Referred to Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee
  8. Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee
  9. Filed

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source