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SF0029 • 2025

Firearm hold agreement-limited liability.

AN ACT relating to civil procedure; providing liability for a person that returns a firearm to the firearm owner pursuant to a firearm hold agreement; providing an exception; providing a definition; providing an exception; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Firearms
Did Not Pass

The latest official action shows that this bill did not move forward in that session.

Sponsor
Transportation
Last action
2025-01-21
Official status
inactive
Effective date
3/1/2025

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide a detailed summary text beyond the bill's provisions and actions. The candidate explanation aligns well with the provided bill text.

Firearm Hold Agreement-Limited Liability

The bill limits the legal responsibility of someone who returns a firearm to its owner after holding it according to an agreement.

What This Bill Does

  • Creates a rule that says people cannot be sued for returning a gun to its owner if they followed a hold agreement.
  • Defines what a 'firearm hold agreement' is: when one person keeps another's legal gun and returns it later as agreed.
  • Says the rule does not protect someone who breaks the agreement or acts illegally while holding the gun.
  • Does not apply to certain types of weapons regulated by federal law.

Who It Names or Affects

  • People who hold firearms for others under an agreement
  • Firearm owners who give their guns to be held

Terms To Know

firearm hold agreement
A deal where one person keeps another's legal gun and returns it later as agreed.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill did not pass, so the rules in it do not apply.
  • It only applies to agreements made on or after July 1, 2025.

Amendments

These notes stay tied to the official amendment files and metadata from the legislature.

SF0029SS001

Standing Committee • Senate Transportation, Highways and Military Affai

Adopted

Plain English: The amendment changes a bill to provide immunity for people who return firearms according to a firearm hold agreement, and removes language about an exception.

  • Adds 'immunity from' before the phrase 'providing liability for a person that returns a firearm'.
  • Removes the phrase 'providing an exception;' from the bill.
  • The amendment does not explain what specific circumstances would qualify for immunity or what the removed exception was about, which limits understanding of these details.

Bill History

  1. 2025-01-21 Senate

    S COW:Failed 2-26-3-0-0

  2. 2025-01-21 Senate

    S Placed on General File

  3. 2025-01-21 Senate

    S08 - Transportation:Recommend Amend and Do Pass 4-0-1-0-0

  4. 2025-01-15 Senate

    S Introduced and Referred to S08 - Transportation

  5. 2024-12-19 Senate

    S Received for Introduction

  6. 2024-12-09 LSO

    Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
25LSO-0082
2025
STATE OF WYOMING
25LSO-0082
Numbered
2.0

SENATE FILE NO. SF0029

Firearm hold agreement-limited liability.

Sponsored by: Joint Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs Interim Committee

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to civil procedure; providing liability for a person that returns a firearm to the firearm owner pursuant to a firearm hold agreement; providing an exception; providing a definition; providing an exception; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1
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Firearm hold agreements; limitation of liability; definition.

(a)

No cause of action shall arise against a person for returning a firearm to a firearm owner at the termination of a firearm hold agreement.

(b)

The immunity provided in subsection (a) of this section shall not apply to an action arising against a person for returning a firearm to a firearm owner at the termination of a firearm hold agreement if the action was the result of a breach of contract or otherwise unlawful conduct on the part of the person holding a firearm for another person.

(c)

As used in this section, "firearm hold agreement" means a written or oral agreement between a firearm owner and another person in which the other person takes physical possession of the firearm owner's lawfully possessed firearm at the owner's request, holds the firearm for an agreed period of time and returns the firearm to the owner according to the terms of the agreement.

(d)

This section shall not apply to firearms, machineguns, rifles, shotguns and any other weapon under the National Firearms Act (26 U.S.C. § 5801 et seq.).

Section 2
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This act shall apply to all firearm hold agreements entered into on or after July 1, 2025.

Section 3
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This act is effective July 1, 2025
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