US Congress House Bill 4344 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: Introduced on November 9 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-12-13 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

End Purchase of Firearms by Dangerous Individuals Act of 2017 This bill requires each state to: establish a reporting system through which mental health professionals may report information about an individual committed to a mental institution who poses a danger or an individual who communicates a serious threat of violence, provide mental health records to the National Instant Criminal History Background Check System for use in determining whether a person is disqualified from possessing or receiving a firearm, and establish a process related to the temporary involuntary commitment of individuals at mental health facilities. Beginning 10 years after enactment, the Department of Justice must reduce by 5% funds under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program for a state that fails to comply with requirements. The bill amends the federal criminal code to expand the categories of prohibited persons (i.e., persons barred from receiving or possessing a firearm) to include persons who communicate a serious threat of violence to a mental health professional. Finally, it replaces various statutory references to persons adjudicated as a "mental defective" with persons adjudicated as "ineligible due to disqualifying mental status."

End Purchase of Firearms by Dangerous Individuals Act of 2017

Rep. David Cicilline [D-RI]	Rep. Ro Khanna [D-CA]	Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]	Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]
Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]	Rep. Alcee Hastings [D-FL]	Rep. William Keating [D-MA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-12-13	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
2017-11-10	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2017-11-09	House	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.
2017-11-09	House	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.
2017-11-09	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/4344/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr4344/BILLS-115hr4344ih.pdf