HR 1608
104th Congress
House
Crime and Law Enforcement
Education
Educational policy
Elementary and secondary education
Firearms
Firearms control
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Interstate commerce
Law
School security
School violence
Supreme Court decisions
Transportation and Public Works
To amend title 18, United States Code, to ensure that the prohibitions against guns in school zones have the requisite nexus with interstate or foreign commerce.
Introduced: May 10, 1995
Introduced by:
Schumer, Charles E.
Democratic
· New York
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jul 18, 1995
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.
May 10, 1995
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
May 10, 1995
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Amends the Federal criminal code to ensure that, with respect to the prohibition against guns in school zones, such guns have moved in or otherwise affect interstate or foreign commerce. (In United States v. Lopez, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Congress did not have the power to make it a Federal crime to possess a gun near a school based on the commerce clause because of an insufficient nexus to commerce.)
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.
Committees of jurisdiction
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