HR 445
115th Congress
House
Crime and Law Enforcement
Congressional oversight
Crime prevention
Firearms and explosives
Law enforcement administration and funding
Violent crime
Buyback Our Safety Act
Introduced: January 11, 2017
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 6, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
Jan 11, 2017
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Jan 11, 2017
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Buyback Our Safety Act
This bill directs the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs (OJP) to establish a gun buyback grant program for state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies.
The OJP must enter into an arrangement with the National Academy of Sciences to develop standards to identify the guns likely to be used in violent crimes and to establish a pricing scale for guns purchased through a gun buyback program.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
Committees of jurisdiction
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