PA Bill Number: HB2663
Title: Providing for older adults protective services; and making a repeal.
Description: Providing for older adults protective services; and making a repeal. ...
Last Action: Referred to AGING AND OLDER ADULT SERVICES
Last Action Date: Nov 19, 2024
Proposed Federal House Legislation HB629
This bill would clarify what mental health counseling means and end current abuses of veterans who seek counseling for conditions such as PTSD.
Legislation Overview
Title: Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Description: Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act This bill prohibits, in any case arising out of the administration of laws and benefits by the Department of Veterans Affairs, any person who is mentally incapacitated, deemed mentally incompetent, or experiencing an extended loss of consciousness from being considered adjudicated as a mental defective for purposes of the right to receive or transport firearms without the order or finding of a judicial authority of competent jurisdiction that such person is a danger to himself or herself or others.
Session: 115th Congress
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
Last Action Date: February 3, 2017
Link: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/629/all-info
Sponsors
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2 sponsors: Michael Conaway (R); Brad Wenstrup (R)
History
Chamber | Date | Action |
House | Feb 3 2017 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs. |
House | Jan 24 2017 | Introduced in House |
House | Jan 24 2017 | Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. |
Texts
Type | Date | Federal Link | Text |
Introduced | Feb 1 2017 | 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 Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs
Votes
There have not been any votes on this bill
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