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PA Bill Number: HB1472

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Last Action: Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT

Last Action Date: Apr 22, 2024

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Proposed Federal House Legislation HR467

this is an anti-gun bill
Legislation Overview

Title: Establishing the Select Committee on Gun Violence Prevention.

Subject: Congressional committees: Congressional operations and organization: Crime prevention: Criminal justice information and records: Domestic violence and child abuse: Firearms and explosives: House of Representatives: Mental health: Smuggling and trafficking: State and local government operations: Urban and suburban affairs and development: Violent crime: Congress

Description: Establishing the Select Committee on Gun Violence Prevention. Establishes the House Select Committee on Gun Violence Prevention to investigate and report on: the causes of mass shootings, methods to improve the federal firearms purchaser background check system, connections between access to firearms and dangerously mentally ill individuals, strengthening federal penalties for trafficking and straw purchasing of firearms, closing loopholes that allow some domestic abusers continued access to firearms, linkages between firearms and suicide, gun violence's effect on public health, the correlation between state gun violence prevention laws and the incidence of gun violence, the importance of having reliable and accurate information on gun violence and its toll on our nation, the implementation of effective gun violence prevention laws in accordance with the Second Amendment to the Constitution, and rates of gun violence in large metropolitan areas.

Session: 114th Congress

Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on Rules.

Last Action Date: October 8, 2015

Link: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-resolution/467/all-info

Sponsors

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130 sponsors: Mike Thompson (D); Elizabeth Esty (D); Chaka Fattah (D); Robin Kelly (D); Grace Napolitano (D); Richard Nolan (D); Ed Perlmutter (D); David Price (D); Kathleen Rice (D); Robert Scott (D); Jackie Speier (D); Bennie Thompson (D); Nancy Pelosi (D); Mark DeSaulnier (D); Chris Van Hollen (D); Eleanor Norton (D); Carolyn Maloney (D); Eric Swalwell (D); Lois Frankel (D); Jared Huffman (D); Ted Lieu (D); James McGovern (D); Lois Capps (D); Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D); Paul Tonko (D); Louise Slaughter (D); Eliot Engel (D); Charles Rangel (D); Luis Gutierrez (D); David Cicilline (D); Doris Matsui (D); Bobby Rush (D); Sheila Jackson-Lee (D); John Larson (D); Theodore Deutch (D); Cedric Richmond (D); Ruben Gallego (D); Chellie Pingree (D); Marcy Kaptur (D); Barbara Lee (D); Tim Ryan (D); John Sarbanes (D); Bonnie Coleman (D); Brenda Lawrence (D); Steve Israel (D); Earl Blumenauer (D); Michelle Lujan Grisham (D); Gregory Meeks (D); Stephen Lynch (D); Suzanne Bonamici (D); Kathy Castor (D); Susan Davis (D); Alcee Hastings (D); Sander Levin (D); William Keating (D); John Conyers (D); Jose Serrano (D); Katherine Clark (D); Steve Cohen (D); Janice Schakowsky (D); Niki Tsongas (D); Betty McCollum (D); Alma Adams (D); Mark Takano (D); Marcia Fudge (D); Raul Grijalva (D); Grace Meng (D); Patrick Murphy (D); John Yarmuth (D); Lloyd Doggett (D); Tammy Duckworth (D); Gwen Moore (D); Don Beyer (D); Peter DeFazio (D); Nita Lowey (D); Jerry McNerney (D); Frederica Wilson (D); Anna Eshoo (D); Yvette Clarke (D); Jim McDermott (D); David Scott (D); Nydia Velazquez (D); Michael Honda (D); Donna Edwards (D); Norma Torres (D); Zoe Lofgren (D); James Langevin (D); Donald Payne (D); Ann Kirkpatrick (D); Linda Sanchez (D); Joe Courtney (D); Lacy Clay (D); Loretta Sanchez (D); Jim Cooper (D); Brian Higgins (D); Juan Vargas (D); Julia Brownley (D); Scott Peters (D); Joseph Crowley (D); Judy Chu (D); Frank Pallone (D); Raul Ruiz (D); Jerrold Nadler (D); Mike Quigley (D); Pete Aguilar (D); Andre Carson (D); James Himes (D); Hakeem Jeffries (D); Ruben Hinojosa (D); Tony Cardenas (D); Mark Pocan (D); Donald Norcross (D); Alan Lowenthal (D); Albio Sires (D); Bill Pascrell (D); Janice Hahn (D); Seth Moulton (D); Michael Doyle (D); G. Butterfield (D); Eddie Johnson (D); Daniel Kildee (D); Henry Johnson (D); John Carney (D); Xavier Becerra (D); Adam Schiff (D); Elijah Cummings (D); Beto O'Rourke (D); Sam Farr (D); Marc Veasey (D); Peter Welch (D)

History
Chamber Date Action
House Oct 8 2015 Introduced in House
House Oct 8 2015 Referred to the House Committee on Rules.
Texts
Type Date Federal Link Text
Introduced Oct 9 2015 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: Rules

Votes

There have not been any votes on this bill

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