HCS HB 1383 -- BUSINESS PREMISES SAFETY ACT (Cox) COMMITTEE OF ORIGIN: Committee on Crime Prevention and Public Safety This substitute establishes the Business Premises Safety Act which prohibits business owners and operators from restricting any person from lawfully possessing a firearm in a motor vehicle. Business owners, operators, merchants, and shopkeepers do not have a duty to guard against the criminal act of a third party unless they know or have reason to know that the acts are occurring or are about to occur that could pose imminent injury to a person or that the same criminal acts have occurred on the premises within the prior 24 months and is likely to occur again. In either case, it will be their duty to use reasonable care to protect against the acts. FISCAL NOTE: No impact on state funds in FY 2009, FY 2010, and FY 2011.Copyright (c) Missouri House of Representatives