S 2676 · 113th Congress 2013–2015, ended

Domestic Violence Gun Homicide Prevention Act of 2014

Fact sheet

Latest action · Jul 29, 2014 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedJul 29, 2014
  2. Passed SenateNot reached
  3. Passed HouseNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Domestic Violence Gun Homicide Prevention Act of 2014 - Authorizes the Director of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services of the Department of Justice (DOJ) to make grants to assist eligible states in carrying out policies, procedures, protocols, laws, or regulations relating to the possession or transfer of firearms or ammunition that:

  • impose restrictions and penalties substantially similar to or more comprehensive than those applicable to possession by or transfer to persons subject to a court order for stalking-related offenses against an intimate partner or child or persons convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence;
  • require the seizure or surrender of all firearms and ammunition from an individual convicted of any crime for which any such restrictions or penalties apply or against whom a court has issued a protection order;
  • require state and local courts to consider, at the initial appearance before a magistrate of any individual arrested for any crime for which such restrictions or penalties apply, if the individual possesses a firearm or ammunition that has been or is likely to be used to threaten, harass, or harm the victim or the victim's child or otherwise pose a danger to them and to issue a protection order prohibitting the possession of any firearm or ammunition and require the surrender or seizure of any firearm or ammunition possessed;
  • give state and local law enforcement the authority to seize a firearm or ammunition when responding to specified domestic violence situations, if there is probable cause to believe such firearm or ammunition is contraband or illegally in the possession of the suspected offender and is likely to be used to threaten, harass, menace, or harm, or to otherwise pose a danger to, the victim or the victim's child; and
  • provide for the safe return of any seized or surrendered firearm or ammunition when such restrictions and penalties no longer apply.

Cosponsors 7

Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Jul 29, 2014.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-HIBrian SchatzOriginalJul 29, 2014
D-MICarl LevinOriginalJul 29, 2014
D-CTChristopher MurphyOriginalJul 29, 2014
D-MAElizabeth WarrenOriginalJul 29, 2014
D-NYKirsten E. GillibrandOriginalJul 29, 2014
D-ILRichard J. DurbinOriginalJul 29, 2014
D-VATim KaineOriginalJul 29, 2014

Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Jul 29, 2014Introduced in Senate
  2. Jul 29, 2014Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Jul 29, 2014Introduced in Senate

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