TO ADD FIREARM SAFETY DEVICES AND FIREARM STORAGE DEVICES TO THE SALES TAX HOLIDAY; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

Fiscal Impact Statement Bill: HB1699 Bill Subtitle: TO ADD FIREARM SAFETY DEVICES AND FIREARM STORAGE DEVICES TO THE SALES TAX HOLIDAY; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsors: Reps. McCullough and Vaught Sen. Tucker Basic Change: Current law, § 26-52-444, provides a sales tax holiday for purchases of clothing, clothing accessories or equipment, school art supplies, school instructional materials, school supplies, and electronic devices. HB1699 expands the sales tax holiday to include a: • “Firearm safety device”, which is defined as a device to be equipped or installed on a firearm designed to prevent unauthorized access to the firearm or to prevent it from being operated without first deactivating the device, but not a firearm sold with a firearm safety device already installed on the firearm; and • “Firearm storage device”, which is defined as a container or enclosure designed for the principal purpose of safely storing a firearm and secured by a combination lock, key lock, or lock based on biometric information which once locked is incapable of b