S 1539
115th Congress
Senate
Crime and Law Enforcement
Assault and harassment offenses
Crime prevention
Crime victims
Domestic violence and child abuse
Firearms and explosives
Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act of 2017
Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 20, 2018
Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held.
Jul 12, 2017
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Jul 12, 2017
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act of 2017
This bill amends the federal criminal code to:
- state that the term "intimate partner" includes a dating partner and any other person subject to a protection order under state domestic or family violence law; and
- expand the term "misdemeanor crime of domestic violence" to include the use or attempted use of physical force, or the threatened use of a deadly weapon, by a current or former intimate partner.
The bill makes it a crime to knowingly sell or dispose of a firearm to a person who has been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of stalking. It also makes it a crime for such convicted stalker to receive or possess a firearm.
What's happening now
Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held.
Committees of jurisdiction
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