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 HR468
A call to expand background checks and improve the mental health system while at the same time, supposedly, restating the importance of protecting the Second Amendment.
Evaluation: potentially anti-gun!
Legislation Overview
Title: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that gun violence is a public health issue and Congress should enact by the end of the 113th Congress comprehensive Federal legislation that protects the Second Amendment and keeps communities safe and healthy, including expanding enforceable background checks for all commercial gun sales, improving the mental health system in the United States, and making gun trafficking and straw purchasing a Federal crime.
Subject: Constitution and constitutional amendments: Criminal justice information and records: Firearms and explosives: Health care quality: Mental health: Retail and wholesale trades: Smuggling and trafficking: Crime and law enforcement
Description: Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) gun violence is a public health issue; and (2) Congress should enact, by the end of the 113th Congress, comprehensive legislation that protects the Second Amendment and keeps communities safe and healthy, including by expanding enforceable background checks for all commercial gun sales, improving the mental health system, and making gun trafficking and straw purchasing a federal crime.
Session: 113th Congress
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
Last Action Date: March 20, 2014
Link: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:HE00468:@@@L&summ2=m&
Sponsors
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16 sponsors: Lowenthal, Alan S.; Chu, Judy; Cicilline, David N.; Edwards, Donna F.; Ellison, Keith; Esty, Elizabeth H.; Honda, Michael M.; Jackson-Lee, Sheila; Lee, Barbara; Lofgren, Zoe; Napolitano, Grace F.; Rush, Bobby L.; Schiff, Adam B.; Shea-Porter, Carol; Thompson, Mike; Tierney, John F.
History
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| House | Mar 20 2014 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations. |
| House | Feb 7 2014 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. |
| House | Jan 29 2014 | Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. |
| House | Jan 29 2014 | Referred to House Judiciary |
| House | Jan 29 2014 | Referred to House Energy and Commerce |
Texts
| Type | Date | Federal Link | Text |
| Introduced | Jan 30 2014 | 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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