PA Bill Number: HB1507
Title: In hunting and furtaking licenses, further providing for resident license and fee exemptions.
Description: In hunting and furtaking licenses, further providing for resident license and fee exemptions. ...
Last Action: Third consideration and final passage (198-5)
Last Action Date: Jun 30, 2025
Federal Legislation Tagged With 'Privacy' Tag
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Multiple Firearm Sales Reporting Modernization Act of 2022
Description: To amend title 18, United States Code, to expand to all firearms the requirement that Federal firearms licensees report sales of 2 or more handguns to the same unlicensed person within 5 consecutive business days.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: November 1, 2022
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Hadiya Pendleton and Nyasia Pryear-Yard Gun Trafficking and Crime Prevention Act of 2022
Description: A bill to prevent gun trafficking.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: May 17, 2022
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Trafficking Reduction And Criminal Enforcement (TRACE) Act
Description: To prevent the illegal sale of firearms, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: November 1, 2022
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Protect Children Through Safe Gun Ownership Act
Description: To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to require adequate supervision before a juvenile can possess a firearm, to require the safe storage of firearms, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: November 1, 2022
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Federal Firearm Licensee Act
Description: To modernize the business of selling firearms.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: November 1, 2022
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act
Description: A bill to repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, and provide for the discoverability and admissibility of gun trace information in civil proceedings.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: April 22, 2021
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act of 2021
Description: To amend section 923 of title 18, United States Code, to require an electronic, searchable database of the importation, production, shipment, receipt, sale, or other disposition of firearms.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: November 1, 2022
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act of 2021
Description: A bill to amend section 923 of title 18, United States Code, to require an electronic, searchable database of the importation, production, shipment, receipt, sale, or other disposition of firearms.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: May 25, 2021
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Virginia Plan to Reduce Gun Violence Act of 2021
Description: A bill to reform Federal firearms laws, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S1985)
Last Action Date: April 15, 2021
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Gun Owner Privacy Act
Description: To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to protect the rights of citizens under the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: April 28, 2021
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Background Check Completion Act of 2021
Description: A bill to prohibit firearms dealers from selling a firearm prior to the completion of a background check.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: March 4, 2021
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Ethan's Law
Description: To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to require the safe storage of firearms, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: March 22, 2021
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Kimberly Vaughan Firearm Safe Storage Act
Description: To require the safe storage of firearms and ammunition, and to require the investigation of reports of improper storage of firearms or ammunition.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: March 1, 2021
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021
Description: To require a background check for every firearm sale.
Last Action: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 390.
Last Action Date: May 25, 2022
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act
Description: To amend title 38, United States Code, to prohibit the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from transmitting certain information to the Department of Justice for use by the national instant criminal background check system.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
Last Action Date: April 12, 2021
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act of 2021
Description: To require face-to-face purchases of ammunition, to require licensing of ammunition dealers, and to require reporting regarding bulk purchases of ammunition.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: April 28, 2021
Session: 116th Congress
Title: National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Data Integrity Act of 2020
Description: Modifies requirements governing the national instant criminal background check system (NICS). Specifically, it allows the NICS to retain records related to a firearms-related background check for as long as necessary to make a final determination of firearms eligibility. Additionally, it requires the NICS to query an additional database—the National Data Exchange—as part of a firearm-related background check.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: May 21, 2020
Session: 116th Congress
Title: Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act of 2020
Description: Requires the National Tracing Center within the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to establish and maintain an electronic, searchable database of records related to certain firearms transactions.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: February 27, 2020
Session: 116th Congress
Title: Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act of 2020
Description: Requires the National Tracing Center within the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to establish and maintain an electronic, searchable database of records related to certain firearms transactions.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: February 27, 2020
Session: 116th Congress
Title: Gun Trafficker Detection Act
Description: To require lost or stolen firearms to be reported to law enforcement authorities within 48 hours, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: March 10, 2020
Session: 116th Congress
Title: Safeguarding Americans' Private Records Act of 2020
Description: Imposes limitations on investigative powers provided under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA), reauthorizes certain FISA programs, and makes related changes. Provisions include reauthorizing to December 15, 2023, FISA authority to obtain business records, but also repealing the power to use such authority to obtain records on an ongoing basis; excluding certain data, such as cell phone location, from FISA authority to access business records; establishing that nonpublic information collected under FISA authority may not be retained for more than three years unless the information includes foreign intelligence information; disallowing the use of FISA-collected business records for criminal, civil, or administrative proceedings except in certain instances, such as cases involving a specific cybersecurity threat from a foreign country; requiring a government entity to notify a targeted person that the entity intends to use in court business records collected under FISA; excluding cell site location and global positioning system information from FISA authority for using a pen register or trap and trace device to collect evidence; reauthorizing to December 15, 2023, the power to treat individual terrorists as foreign agents; expanding the powers of FISA court amicus curiae (outside parties appointed to assist in a case), such as by authorizing the amicus to refer a FISA court decision to the FISA Court of Review; and repealing the government's authority to use National Security Letters to obtain financial or communications records without a court order.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: January 28, 2020
Session: 116th Congress
Title: Safeguarding Americans' Private Records Act of 2020
Description: Imposes limitations on investigative powers provided under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA), reauthorizes certain FISA programs, and makes related changes. Provisions include reauthorizing to December 15, 2023, FISA authority to obtain business records, but also repealing the power to use such authority to obtain records on an ongoing basis; excluding certain data, such as cell phone location, from FISA authority to access business records; establishing that nonpublic information collected under FISA authority may not be retained for more than three years unless the information includes foreign intelligence information; disallowing the use of FISA-collected business records for criminal, civil, or administrative proceedings except in certain instances, such as cases involving a specific cybersecurity threat from a foreign country; requiring a government entity to notify a targeted person that the entity intends to use in court business records collected under FISA; excluding cell site location and global positioning system information from FISA authority for using a pen register or trap and trace device to collect evidence; reauthorizing to December 15, 2023, the power to treat individual terrorists as foreign agents; expanding the powers of FISA court amicus curiae (outside parties appointed to assist in a case), such as by authorizing the amicus to refer a FISA court decision to the FISA Court of Review; and repealing the government's authority to use National Security Letters to obtain financial or communications records without a court order.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight, Management, and Accountability.
Last Action Date: January 30, 2020
Session: 116th Congress
Title: Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2020
Description: To authorize dedicated domestic terrorism offices within the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to analyze and monitor domestic terrorist activity and require the Federal Government to take steps to prevent domestic terrorism.
Last Action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: September 22, 2020
Session: 116th Congress
Title: Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2020
Description: A bill to authorize dedicated domestic terrorism offices within the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to analyze and monitor domestic terrorist activity and require the Federal Government to take steps to prevent domestic terrorism.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR S195-197)
Last Action Date: January 14, 2020
Session: 116th Congress
Title: End Purchase of Firearms by Dangerous Individuals Act of 2019
Description: To incentivize State reporting systems that allow mental health professionals to submit information on certain individuals deemed dangerous for purposes of prohibiting firearm possession by such individuals, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: July 30, 2019
