HR 2708 · 116th Congress 2019–2021, ended

Disarm Hate Act

Introduced May 14, 2019 Originated House Sponsor David N. Cicilline D-RI

Latest action · Sep 10, 2019 Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 23 - 15.

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.

IntroducedMay 14, 2019
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Disarm Hate Act

The bill expands the categories of persons who are prohibited from receiving or possessing a firearm.

Specifically, it prohibits firearm sale or transfer to and receipt, possession, shipment, or transport by a person (1) who has been convicted of a misdemeanor hate crime, or (2) who has received an enhanced hate crime misdemeanor sentence.

Cosponsors 191

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 14, 2019 to Mar 9, 2020; 106 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-WA	Adam Smith	Original	May 14, 2019
D-NY	Adriano Espaillat	Original	May 14, 2019
D-TX	Al Green	Original	May 14, 2019
D-CA	Alan S. Lowenthal	Original	May 14, 2019
D-NJ	Albio Sires	Original	May 14, 2019
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings	Original	May 14, 2019
D-NC	Alma S. Adams	Original	May 14, 2019
D-IN	André Carson	Original	May 14, 2019
D-MI	Andy Levin	Original	May 14, 2019
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo	Original	May 14, 2019
D-MD	Anthony G. Brown	Original	May 14, 2019
D-CA	Barbara Lee	Original	May 14, 2019
D-MN	Betty McCollum	Original	May 14, 2019
D-IL	Bill Foster	Original	May 14, 2019
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush	Original	May 14, 2019
D-NJ	Bonnie Watson Coleman	Original	May 14, 2019
D-MI	Brenda L. Lawrence	Original	May 14, 2019
D-PA	Brendan F. Boyle	Original	May 14, 2019
D-MD	C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger	Original	May 14, 2019
D-FL	Charlie Crist	Original	May 14, 2019
D-PA	Chrissy Houlahan	Original	May 14, 2019
D-MI	Daniel T. Kildee	Original	May 14, 2019
D-IL	Danny K. Davis	Original	May 14, 2019
D-FL	Darren Soto	Original	May 14, 2019
D-MD	David J. Trone	Original	May 14, 2019
D-MI	Debbie Dingell	Original	May 14, 2019
D-FL	Debbie Mucarsel-Powell	Original	May 14, 2019
D-FL	Debbie Wasserman Schultz	Original	May 14, 2019
D-NM	Debra A. Haaland	Original	May 14, 2019
D-NV	Dina Titus	Original	May 14, 2019
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne, Jr.	Original	May 14, 2019
D-VA	Donald S. Beyer, Jr.	Original	May 14, 2019
D-FL	Donna E. Shalala	Original	May 14, 2019
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer	Original	May 14, 2019
D-CO	Ed Perlmutter	Original	May 14, 2019
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton	Original	May 14, 2019
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings	Original	May 14, 2019
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel	Original	May 14, 2019
D-CA	Eric Swalwell	Original	May 14, 2019
D-NJ	Frank Pallone, Jr.	Original	May 14, 2019
D-FL	Frederica S. Wilson	Original	May 14, 2019
D-VA	Gerald E. Connolly	Original	May 14, 2019
D-CA	Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr.	Original	May 14, 2019
D-NY	Grace Meng	Original	May 14, 2019
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks	Original	May 14, 2019
D-WI	Gwen Moore	Original	May 14, 2019
D-CA	Harley Rouda	Original	May 14, 2019
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.	Original	May 14, 2019
D-MN	Ilhan Omar	Original	May 14, 2019
D-CA	Jackie Speier	Original	May 14, 2019
D-CT	Jahana Hayes	Original	May 14, 2019
D-RI	James R. Langevin	Original	May 14, 2019
D-MD	Jamie Raskin	Original	May 14, 2019
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky	Original	May 14, 2019
D-CA	Jared Huffman	Original	May 14, 2019
D-CO	Jason Crow	Original	May 14, 2019
D-VA	Jennifer Wexton	Original	May 14, 2019
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler	Original	May 14, 2019
D-IL	Jesús G. "Chuy" García	Original	May 14, 2019
D-CT	John B. Larson	Original	May 14, 2019
D-NY	Jose E. Serrano	Original	May 14, 2019
D-NY	Joseph D. Morelle	Original	May 14, 2019
D-MA	Joseph P. Kennedy III	Original	May 14, 2019
D-CA	Juan Vargas	Original	May 14, 2019
D-CA	Judy Chu	Original	May 14, 2019
D-CA	Julia Brownley	Original	May 14, 2019
D-CA	Karen Bass	Original	May 14, 2019
D-MA	Katherine M. Clark	Original	May 14, 2019
D-FL	Kathy Castor	Original	May 14, 2019
D-CA	Katie Hill	Original	May 14, 2019
D-FL	Lois Frankel	Original	May 14, 2019
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard	Original	May 14, 2019
D-GA	Lucy McBath	Original	May 14, 2019
D-PA	Madeleine Dean	Original	May 14, 2019
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur	Original	May 14, 2019
D-CA	Mark DeSaulnier	Original	May 14, 2019
D-CA	Mark Takano	Original	May 14, 2019
D-PA	Mary Gay Scanlon	Original	May 14, 2019
D-NY	Max Rose	Original	May 14, 2019
D-CA	Maxine Waters	Original	May 14, 2019
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle	Original	May 14, 2019
D-IL	Mike Quigley	Original	May 14, 2019
D-CA	Mike Thompson	Original	May 14, 2019
D-NJ	Mikie Sherrill	Original	May 14, 2019
D-NY	Nita M. Lowey	Original	May 14, 2019
D-NY	Nydia M. Velázquez	Original	May 14, 2019
D-NY	Paul Tonko	Original	May 14, 2019
D-WA	Pramila Jayapal	Original	May 14, 2019
D-IL	Raja Krishnamoorthi	Original	May 14, 2019
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva	Original	May 14, 2019
D-CA	Ro Khanna	Original	May 14, 2019
D-IL	Robin L. Kelly	Original	May 14, 2019
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro	Original	May 14, 2019
D-CA	Salud O. Carbajal	Original	May 14, 2019
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee	Original	May 14, 2019
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch	Original	May 14, 2019
D-TN	Steve Cohen	Original	May 14, 2019
D-CA	Susan A. Davis	Original	May 14, 2019
D-TX	Sylvia R. Garcia	Original	May 14, 2019
D-FL	Theodore E. Deutch	Original	May 14, 2019
D-NY	Thomas R. Suozzi	Original	May 14, 2019
D-CA	Tj Cox	Original	May 14, 2019
D-CA	Tony Cárdenas	Original	May 14, 2019
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay	Original	May 14, 2019
D-NY	Yvette D. Clarke	Original	May 14, 2019
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren	Original	May 14, 2019
D-MA	Seth Moulton		May 16, 2019
D-MA	James P. McGovern		May 22, 2019
D-MD	John P. Sarbanes		May 22, 2019
D-MI	Rashida Tlaib		May 22, 2019
D-NJ	Tom Malinowski		Jun 18, 2019
D-CA	Pete Aguilar		Jun 21, 2019
D-FL	Val Butler Demings		Jun 27, 2019
D-NY	Kathleen M. Rice		Jul 9, 2019
D-WA	Kim Schrier		Jul 9, 2019
D-TX	Marc A. Veasey		Jul 9, 2019
D-NC	David E. Price		Jul 16, 2019
D-NY	Sean Patrick Maloney		Jul 16, 2019
D-MA	Ayanna Pressley		Aug 6, 2019
D-NY	Hakeem S. Jeffries		Aug 6, 2019
D-CA	J. Luis Correa		Aug 6, 2019
D-NJ	Josh Gottheimer		Aug 6, 2019
D-PA	Matt Cartwright		Aug 6, 2019
D-CA	Scott H. Peters		Aug 6, 2019
D-IL	Sean Casten		Aug 6, 2019
D-TX	Veronica Escobar		Aug 6, 2019
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		Aug 9, 2019
D-AZ	Ruben Gallego		Aug 9, 2019
D-MA	William R. Keating		Aug 9, 2019
D-CT	Joe Courtney		Aug 16, 2019
D-NY	Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez		Aug 20, 2019
D-CA	Ted Lieu		Aug 20, 2019
D-IL	Bradley Scott Schneider		Aug 23, 2019
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth		Aug 23, 2019
D-OR	Suzanne Bonamici		Aug 23, 2019
D-IL	Daniel Lipinski		Aug 27, 2019
D-TX	Lloyd Doggett		Aug 30, 2019
D-PA	Dwight Evans		Sep 6, 2019
D-CA	John Garamendi		Sep 6, 2019
D-WI	Mark Pocan		Sep 6, 2019
D-NH	Ann M. Kuster		Sep 9, 2019
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez		Sep 9, 2019
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.		Sep 10, 2019
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui		Sep 10, 2019
D-HI	Ed Case		Sep 10, 2019
D-MI	Haley M. Stevens		Sep 10, 2019
D-CA	Jimmy Panetta		Sep 10, 2019
D-CO	Joe Neguse		Sep 10, 2019
D-DE	Lisa Blunt Rochester		Sep 10, 2019
D-NV	Susie Lee		Sep 10, 2019
D-AL	Terri A. Sewell		Sep 10, 2019
D-AZ	Ann Kirkpatrick		Sep 11, 2019
D-NM	Ben Ray Luján		Sep 11, 2019
D-CA	Brad Sherman		Sep 11, 2019
D-MN	Dean Phillips		Sep 11, 2019
D-WA	Derek Kilmer		Sep 11, 2019
D-MA	Lori Trahan		Sep 11, 2019
D-CA	Mike Levin		Sep 11, 2019
D-LA	Cedric L. Richmond		Sep 12, 2019
D-NJ	Donald Norcross		Sep 12, 2019
D-GA	John Lewis		Sep 12, 2019
D-OH	Joyce Beatty		Sep 12, 2019
D-OH	Tim Ryan		Sep 12, 2019
D-MS	Bennie G. Thompson		Sep 16, 2019
D-IL	Cheri Bustos		Sep 16, 2019
D-TX	Filemon Vela		Sep 16, 2019
D-NC	G. K. Butterfield		Sep 16, 2019
D-CA	Norma J. Torres		Sep 16, 2019
D-VT	Peter Welch		Sep 16, 2019
D-WA	Suzan K. DelBene		Sep 16, 2019
D-ME	Chellie Pingree		Sep 17, 2019
D-NH	Chris Pappas		Sep 17, 2019
D-CO	Diana DeGette		Sep 17, 2019
D-CA	Raul Ruiz		Sep 17, 2019
D-TX	Vicente Gonzalez		Sep 17, 2019
D-CA	Ami Bera		Sep 18, 2019
D-TX	Henry Cuellar		Sep 18, 2019
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff		Oct 16, 2019
D-FL	Al Lawson, Jr.		Oct 16, 2019
D-VA	Elaine G. Luria		Oct 18, 2019
D-GA	David Scott		Oct 22, 2019
D-CA	Nanette Diaz Barragán		Jan 7, 2020
D-KS	Sharice Davids		Jan 8, 2020
D-MN	Angie Craig		Jan 15, 2020
D-MO	Emanuel Cleaver		Jan 28, 2020
D-IL	Lauren Underwood		Feb 4, 2020
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		Feb 7, 2020
D-TN	Jim Cooper		Feb 21, 2020
D-NJ	Andy Kim		Feb 27, 2020
D-TX	Joaquin Castro		Mar 9, 2020
D-CA	Katie Porter		Mar 9, 2020

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Judiciary Committee	Referred May 14, 2019Markup Sep 10, 2019
	Crime and Federal Government Surveillance Subcommittee	Referred Jun 26, 2019Discharged Sep 10, 2019

Actions 6

Everything that happened, newest first.

Sep 10, 2019Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security Discharged.
Sep 10, 2019Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Sep 10, 2019Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 23 - 15.
Jun 26, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
May 14, 2019Introduced in House

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Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Congressional Budget Office cost estimate

Oct 23, 2019H.R. 2708, Disarm Hate ActAs ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on September 10, 2019

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article 1, Section 8

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 165, no. 80, May 14, 2019, page H3790.

Printed hearings 1

Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.

Number	Hearing	Committee	Held
S. Hrg. 116-609	MASS VIOLENCE, EXTREMISM, AND DIGITAL RESPONSIBILITY102 pages	Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee	Sep 18, 2019

CRS reports 1

Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.

Cite it 1

Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.

Product	Title	Kind	Published
R45970	Gun Control: National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Operations and Related Legislation Archived	Report	Oct 17, 2019

Related bills 3

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 1462	Disarm Hate Act	Identical bill	May 14, 2019
HR 2841	Disarm Hate Act	Reintroduction of	Jul 19, 2017
HR 3929	Disarm Hate Act	Reintroduced Bill	Nov 1, 2022

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To prevent a person who has been convicted of a misdemeanor hate crime, or received an enhanced sentence for a misdemeanor because of hate or bias in its commission, from obtaining a firearm.
Short Title(s) as Introduced: Disarm Hate Act

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

May 14, 2019Introduced in House

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