Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Deals with transaction with Pawn Brokers. Record keeping with firearms transactions could be considered as creating a database of firearm ownership.
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Title: Further providing for definitions, for license required, for application for license; repealing provisions relating to interest and charges, to identity of pledgor, to pawn ticket, to negotiability of ticket, to loss of ticket, seizure of ticket or of property offered as pledge, to altered ticket, to counterfeit ticket, to payment or renewal and to pawnbroker's lien on pledge; further providing for pawnbroker's lien on pledge and for sale of pledge; repealing provisions relating to business hours and business with minors; and providing for pawnbroker transaction form, for recordkeeping and storage, for pledged goods not redeemed, for pawn service charges, for prohibited acts, for right to redeem and lost transaction form, for pawnbroker's lien, for claims against purchased goods or pledged goods held by pawnbrokers and for hold orders.
Subject:
Description: An Act amending the act of April 6, 1937 (P.L.200, No.51), known as the Pawnbrokers License Act, further providing for definitions, for license required, for application for license; repealing provisions relating to interest and charges, to identity of pledgor, to pawn ticket, to negotiability of ticket, to loss of ticket, seizure of ticket or of property offered as pledge, to altered ticket, to counterfeit ticket, to payment or renewal and to pawnbroker's lien on pledge; further providing for pawnbroker's lien on pledge and for sale of pledge; repealing provisions relating to business hours and business with minors; and providing for pawnbroker transaction form, for recordkeeping and storage, for pledged goods not redeemed, for pawn service charges, for prohibited acts, for right to redeem and lost transaction form, for pawnbroker's lien, for claims against purchased goods or pledged goods held by pawnbrokers and for hold orders.
Session: 2015-2016 Regular Session
Last Action: Referred to JUDICIARY
Last Action Date: April 1, 2015
Link: http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2015&sind=0&body=H&type=B&bn=865
Note: the first sponsor listed is normally the primary sponsor. If a sponsor's name is a hyperlink you can click on it to 'follow the money'.
12 sponsors: Ted Harhai; Curtis Thomas; Doyle Heffley; Vanessa Brown; Michael O'Brien; Jason Dawkins; Anthony DeLuca; Thaddeus Kirkland; Mark Cohen; Daniel McNeill; Thomas Murt; Timothy Mahoney
Chamber | Date | Action |
House | Apr 1, 2015 | Referred to JUDICIARY |
Type | Date | State Link | Text |
Introduced | not available | state bill text | bill text |
There have not been any votes on this bill