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HR 27 97th Congress House Crime and Law Enforcement Corrections and Correctional Institutions Crime prevention Criminal law Criminal procedure and sentencing Firearms Firearms control Parole Probation Punishment Sentences (Criminal procedure)

A bill to amend chapter 44 of title 18 of the United States Code to extend and strengthen the mandatory penalty feature of the prohibition against the use of firearms in Federal felonies and for other purposes.

Introduced: January 5, 1981 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 19, 1981
Referred to Subcommittee on Crime.
Jan 5, 1981
Referred to House Committee on The Judiciary.
Jan 5, 1981
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends the Omnibus Crime Control Act of 1970 to revise and increase the mandatory penalties for using or carrying a firearm during commission of a Federal felony.

Defines such offense as using a firearm to commit a felony over which the district courts have exclusive jurisdiction or carrying a firearm during such a felony involving violence. Deletes the requirement that the firearm be carried "illegally."

Increases the additional penalty imposed for such offense from one to ten years' imprisonment to five to ten years' imprisonment for a first offender and from two to 25 years to ten years to life imprisonment for a second or subsequent offender.

Extends to first offenders the directions, currently applicable only to second offenders, that the court not suspend any sentence or grant probation and that the additional sentence not run concurrently with any term of imprisonment imposed for the offense itself.

Makes a first offender ineligible for parole for five years and a second or subsequent offender ineligible for ten years.

Expresses the sense of Congress that the executive prosecute vigorously such offenses.

What's happening now February 19, 1981

Referred to Subcommittee on Crime.

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