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Equal Rights and Access for the Women of South Sudan Act [HB-116]
[Human Rights ]
[International ]
To require that activities carried out by the United States in South Sudan relating to governance, reconstruction and development, and refugee relief and assistance support the basic human rights of women and women's participation and leadership in these areas.
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David’s Law David Ray Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2021 [HB-133]
[Crime ]
[Human Rights ]
[Public Safety ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Criminal Justice ]
To enhance Federal enforcement of hate crimes, and for other purposes.
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Accidental Firearms Transfers Reporting Act of 2021 [HB-135]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
To require the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to report to the Congress semiannually on the number of firearms transfers resulting from the failure to complete a background check within 3 business days, and the procedures followed after it is discovered that a firearm transfer has been made to a transferee who is ineligible to receive a firearm.
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No Congressional Gun Loophole Act [HB-9053]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Prohibits the Capitol Police Board from allowing Members of Congress or their staff to carry firearms on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol or in its buildings. Members and their staff may store firearms in their cars in Capitol complex garages if their possession complies with the firearms laws of the District of Columbia and the firearms are locked with gun locks while on the complex. Current board regulations allow Members of Congress to keep firearms in their offices; the regulations also allow Members and their staff to transport unloaded and
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PREP for All Students Act of 2020 Promoting Responsible Emergency Protocols for All Students Act [HB-8869]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Health ]
[Healthcare ]
To create a Council on Emergency Response Protocols to ensure the establishment of accessible, developmentally appropriate, culturally aware, and trauma-informed emergency response protocols in public schools, early childcare and education settings, and institutions of higher education, and for other purposes.
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PREP for All Students Act of 2020 Promoting Responsible Emergency Protocols for All Students Act [S.4956]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Disaster Relief ]
[Public Health ]
A bill to create a Council on Emergency Response Protocols to ensure the establishment of accessible, developmentally appropriate, culturally aware, and trauma-informed emergency response protocols in public schools, early childcare and education settings, and institutions of higher education, and for other purposes.
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To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to conduct a study on perpetrators of mass killings, and for other purposes. [HB-8837]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[National Security ]
Directs the Department of Homeland Security to study and report on perpetrators of mass killings.
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Keeping Guns From Criminals Act [HB-8821]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
To provide an incentive for firearm owners to sell their firearms safely and responsibly.
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Banning Rubber Bullets Act of 2020 [HB-8823]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Human Rights ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Prohibits the use of nonlethal rounds (e.g., rubber or plastic bullets) by federal law enforcement officers for crowd control or in response to passive resistance and provides that an individual injured by the use of these rounds may bring a civil action. It also discourages the use of nonlethal rounds by state and local law enforcement officers by requiring similar prohibitions as a condition of receiving certain federal funding for crime prevention.
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Expressing condemnation for police brutality wherever in the world it occurs. [HR-1240]
[Crime ]
[Human Rights ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
This resolution condemns police brutality.
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A resolution expressing support for the designation of June 2, 2016, as "National Gun Violence Awareness Day" and June 2016 as "National Gun Violence Awareness Month". [SR-478]
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[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
A resolution expressing support for the designation of June 2, 2016, as "National Gun Violence Awareness Day" and June 2016 as "National Gun Violence Awareness Month". Expresses support for the designation of June 2016 as National Gun Violence Awareness Month and June 2, 2016, as National Gun Violence Awareness Day. Calls on the people of the United States to: promote greater awareness of gun violence and gun safety; wear orange on National Gun Violence Awareness Day; concentrate heightened attention on gun violence during the summer months, when
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Target Practice and Marksmanship Training Support Act [S.992]
[Sports ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Recreation ]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Public Safety ]
Target Practice and Marksmanship Training Support Act This bill amends the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act to facilitate the construction and expansion of public target ranges by: (1) authorizing a state to pay up to 90% of the costs of acquiring land for, expanding, or constructing a public target range; (2) authorizing a state to elect to allocate 10% of a specified amount apportioned to it from the federal aid to wildlife restoration fund for those costs; (3) limiting the federal share of those costs under such Act to 90%; and (4)
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Second Amendment Enforcement Act of 2015 [S.874]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Second Amendment Enforcement Act of 2015 Declares that nothing in a certain prohibition against killing wild birds and wild animals in the District of Columbia, or any other provision of law, shall authorize or be construed to permit the District of Columbia Council, the Mayor, or any District governmental or regulatory authority to prohibit or unduly burden the ability of persons otherwise not prohibited from possessing firearms under federal law from acquiring or using for lawful purposes any firearm neither prohibited by federal law nor subject
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Transnational Criminal Organization Illicit Spotter Prevention and Elimination Act [S.847]
[Immigration ]
[Crime ]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[National Security ]
[Public Safety ]
Transnational Criminal Organization Illicit Spotter Prevention and Elimination Act Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make it a crime to: (1) transmit to another person the location, movement, or activities of law enforcement agents while intending to further a federal crime relating to U.S. immigration; and (2) destroy, alter, or damage any physical or electronic device used by the federal government to control the border or any port of entry. Subjects a violator to fine, up to 10 years' imprisonment, or both. Prohibits the carrying
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Target Practice and Marksmanship Training Support Act [S.721]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Sports ]
[Recreation ]
[Public Safety ]
Target Practice and Marksmanship Training Support Act This bill amends the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act to facilitate the construction and expansion of public target ranges by: (1) authorizing a state to pay up to 90% of the costs of acquiring land for, expanding, or constructing a public target range; (2) authorizing a state to elect to allocate 10% of a specified amount apportioned to it from the federal aid to wildlife restoration fund for those costs; (3) limiting the federal share of those costs under such Act to 90%; and (4)
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Veterans' Heritage Firearms Act of 2015 [S.670]
[Veterans ]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Military ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
Veterans' Heritage Firearms Act of 2015 Provides a 90-day amnesty period during which veterans and their family members can register in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record any firearm acquired before October 31, 1968, by a veteran while a member of the Armed Forces stationed outside the continental United States. Grants such an individual limited immunity under the federal criminal code and the Internal Revenue Code with respect to the acquisition, possession, transportation, or alteration of such firearm before or concurrent
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Bipartisan Sportsmen's Act of 2016 [S.659]
[Animals ]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Sports ]
[Recreation ]
Bipartisan Sportsmen's Act of 2016 This bill revises a variety of existing programs related to hunting, fishing, recreational shooting, and wildlife. The North American Wetlands Conservation Act, the African Elephant Conservation Act, the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act of 1994, the Asian Elephant Conservation Act of 1997, the Great Ape Conservation Fund, and the Marine Turtle Conservation Fund are reauthorized through FY2020. The Toxic Substances Control Act is amended to exempt components of firearms and ammunition and sport fishing equipment
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Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2015 [S.551]
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[Crime ]
[National Security ]
[Public Safety ]
Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2015 Amends the federal criminal code to authorize the Attorney General to deny the transfer of a firearm or the issuance of a firearms or explosives license or permit (or revoke such license or permit) if the Attorney General: (1) determines that the transferee is known (or appropriately suspected) to be engaged in terrorism or has provided material support or resources for terrorism, and (2) has a reasonable belief that the transferee may use a firearm in connection with terrorism.
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Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2015 [S.498]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[National Security ]
Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2015 Amends the federal criminal code to authorize a person who is not prohibited from possessing, transporting, shipping, or receiving a firearm under federal law, who is entitled and not prohibited from carrying a concealed firearm in his or her state of residence or who is carrying a valid state license or permit to carry a concealed weapon, and who is carrying a government-issued photographic identification document, to carry a concealed handgun (which has been shipped or transported in interstate
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Firearms Manufacturers and Dealers Protection Act of 2015 [S.477]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Finance ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Firearms Manufacturers and Dealers Protection Act of 2015 This bill declares that funds appropriated or otherwise made available, including amounts derived from any fee or other source, are denied to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Department of Justice, or any other federal agency to carry out Operation Choke Point or any other program designed to discourage the provision or continuation of credit or the processing of payments by financial institutions for dealers and manufacturers of firearms and ammunition.