HR 1228
105th Congress
House
Crime and Law Enforcement
Administrative remedies
Ammunition
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Evidence (Law)
Ex-offenders
Explosives
Fines (Penalties)
Firearms
Firearms control
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Judicial review of administrative acts
Law
Pardons
Violence
Stop Arming Felons (SAFe) Act
Introduced: April 8, 1997
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Everywhere this bill has been
4 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 11, 1997
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.
Apr 8, 1997
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Apr 8, 1997
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1297)
Apr 8, 1997
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Stop Arming Felons (SAFe) Act - Amends the Federal criminal code to: (1) deny natural persons the opportunity to seek administrative relief from prohibitions against possessing, shipping, transporting, or receiving firearms or ammunition; (2) require publication of additional information about such administrative relief granted to any person; and (3) prohibit the possession of, or transactions in, firearms by any natural person convicted of a serious drug offense or violent felony, regardless of any expungement of the conviction or restoration of other civil rights.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.
Committees of jurisdiction
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