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By Mark Madsen
Senator, District 13

SB 78 - Protection of Constitutionally Guaranteed Activities in Certain Private Venues would protect the rights of employees to keep firearms in their private vehicles parked in an employers parking lot. Under this bill, private employers have the option of providing alternative parking or a secure monitored gun locker for employees who wish to have a firearm in their car for sporting, self-protection or other purposes on their way to and/or from work.

Businesses, other than those governed by Federal law (that specifically prohibits employees from keeping firearms in their personal cars parked in the business' parking lots), can prohibit employees from exercising their second amendment rights only if they can demonstrate that providing alternative parking or a secured gun locker for employees places an undue burden on the employer.

Oil refineries have a special unconditional exemption from abiding by this law and do not have to consider providing alternative parking or lockers under the terms of an amendment added to the bill at the request of the oil refinery lobby prior to passage in the Senate.

SB 78 passed the Senate today and moves to the House.

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