US Congress House Bill 404 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 22-1)
Status: Introduced on January 23 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-02-28 - 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]

Straw Purchaser Penalty Enhancement Act - Amends the federal criminal code to provide for an additional sentence of two years' imprisonment for violating the prohibitions against making false statements or misrepresenting identification regarding the acquisition of a firearm or ammunition: (1) knowing that the violation will further the transfer of two or more firearms to a person prohibited by law from shipping, transporting, possessing, or receiving a firearm; and (2) with the intent to conceal such person's identity from the transferor. Prohibits the court from: (1) placing any person convicted of such violation on probation; and (2) reducing a term of imprisonment for such a violation so as to compensate for, or otherwise take into account, a term of imprisonment imposed or to be imposed for a separate such violation. Prohibits a term of imprisonment imposed under this Act from running concurrently with a term imposed on the person under any other legal provision, except that a term imposed may, in the court's discretion, run concurrently with another term imposed by the court at the same time for a separate such violation, subject to applicable guidelines and policy statements issued by the United States Sentencing Commission. Requires the court to specify in its statement of the reasons for imposing a sentence for such a violation the factors that require any sentence below the statutory minimum. Directs the Attorney General to issue regulations requiring any form required to be completed by the purchaser of a firearm from a licensed firearms dealer to include a notice of the provisions of this Act.

Straw Purchaser Penalty Enhancement Act

Sen. Adam Schiff [D-CA]	Rep. Karen Bass [D-CA]	Rep. David Cicilline [D-RI]	Rep. Joe Courtney [D-CT]
Rep. Danny Davis [D-IL]	Rep. Rosa DeLauro [D-CT]	Rep. Elizabeth Esty [D-CT]	Rep. John Garamendi [D-CA]
Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]	Rep. Jared Huffman [D-CA]	Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]	Rep. Betty McCollum [D-MN]
Rep. Gregory Meeks [D-NY]	Rep. James Moran [D-VA]	Rep. Grace Napolitano [D-CA]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]
Rep. Pedro Pierluisi [N-PR]	Rep. Bobby Rush [D-IL]	Rep. Carol Shea-Porter [D-NH]	Rep. Brad Sherman [D-CA]
Rep. Louise Slaughter [D-NY]	Rep. Mark Takano [D-CA]	Sen. Chris Van Hollen [D-MD]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-02-28	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations.
2013-01-23	House	Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/404/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/hr404/BILLS-113hr404ih.pdf