Senate panel to consider key gun bill
- February 10, 2015
- / News Service of Florida
- / government
A Senate committee next week is slated to take up controversial bills that deal with guns on college campuses and people carrying firearms during mandatory emergency evacuations. The bills, SB 176 filed by Sen. Greg Evers, R-Baker, and SB 290, filed by Sen. Jeff Brandes, R-St. Petersburg, are scheduled to be heard Feb. 16 by the Criminal Justice Committee, according to a meeting notice published Monday. Evers is the chairman of the committee.
SB 176 would allow people with concealed-firearms licenses to carry guns at colleges and universities. The issue has received added attention after a shooting incident in November at Florida State University that left three people wounded and the gunman killed by police.
SB 290, meanwhile, would allow Floridians to carry concealed weapons without licenses during times of mandatory emergency evacuations. Brandes proposed a similar bill last year, but it failed to pass after heavy debate.
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