PA Bill Number: HB1307
Title: In general provisions relating to children and minors, providing for contracting and consent by certain minors.
Description: In general provisions relating to children and minors, providing for contracting and consent by certain minors. ...
Last Action: Referred to CHILDREN AND YOUTH
Last Action Date: Apr 28, 2025
Proposed Federal House Legislation HB1177
Domestic violence and firearms prohibitions.
Legislation Overview
Title: Domestic Violence Survivor Protection Act
Subject: Assault and harassment offenses: Crime prevention: Crimes against women: Domestic violence and child abuse: Evidence and witnesses: Firearms and explosives: Crime and law enforcement
Description: Domestic Violence Survivor Protection Act - Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to modify the definition of: (1) "intimate partner" to include a dating partner or former dating partner of a person (replacing language including an individual who cohabitates or has cohabitated with the person); and (2) "misdemeanor crime of domestic violence" to include an offense that has, as an element, the use of physical force or a deadly weapon by a dating partner or former dating partner. Extends the prohibition against the shipment, transport, possession, or receipt of a firearm or ammunition in interstate or foreign commerce to: (1) a person who is subject to a court order issued after a hearing (eliminating the requirements that the person received actual notice of and had an opportunity to participate in the hearing) with respect to a court order restraining the person from harassing, stalking, threatening, or placing in reasonable fear of bodily injury an intimate partner, a child of such intimate partner or person, a family member even if such member had never cohabited with such person, an individual who cohabitates or has cohabitated with the person, or an elderly or dependent adult; (2) a person restrained by a court order issued at the request of an employer on behalf of its employee or at the request of an institution of higher education on behalf of its student; and (3) a court order that restrains such a person from intimidating or dissuading a witness from testifying in court.
Session: 113th Congress
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations.
Last Action Date: April 15, 2013
Link: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:HN01177:@@@L&summ2=m&
Sponsors
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1 sponsors: Capps, Lois
History
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| House | Apr 15 2013 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations. |
| House | Mar 14 2013 | Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. |
Texts
| Type | Date | Federal Link | Text |
| Introduced | Mar 21 2013 | federal bill text | bill text |
Amendments
| Title | Description | Date | State Link | Text | Adopted |
| There are no amendments to this bill at this time | |||||
Committee
Chamber: H
Committee Name: Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations
Votes
There have not been any votes on this bill
Comments On This Bill
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