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Proposed Federal House Legislation HCR127

Legislation Overview

Title: Condemning gun violence and its impact on youth by supporting the enactment of legislation to prevent future school and neighborhood shootings.

Subject: Crime and law enforcement: Academic performance and assessments: Child health: Child safety and welfare: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation: Criminal justice information and records: Elementary and secondary education: Firearms and explosives: Health personnel: Medical education: Medical research: Mental health: School administration: Teaching, teachers, curricula: Violent crime

Description: Condemning gun violence and its impact on youth by supporting the enactment of legislation to prevent future school and neighborhood shootings. Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States must address gun violence. Expresses support for the following: reinstating the ban on the sale of assault weapons, ensuring that children can attend school and live free from the threat of violence, ensuring that school districts create learning environments where all students can excel, providing evidence-based school threat assessments, keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of unauthorized individuals, promoting information sharing to facilitate the early identification of threats, providing evidence-based training to recognize the indicators of violent behavior, and facilitating relevant research to expand access for mental health services.

Session: 115th Congress

Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.

Last Action Date: August 2, 2018

Link: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/127/all-info

Sponsors

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5 sponsors: Frederica Wilson (D); Nanette Barragan (D); Robin Kelly (D); Eddie Johnson (D); Henry Johnson (D)

History

Chamber	Date	Action
House	Aug 2 2018	Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
House	Jun 28 2018	Introduced in House
House	Jun 28 2018	Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and 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.
House	Jun 28 2018	Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and 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.
House	Jun 28 2018	Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and 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.

Texts

Type	Date	Federal Link	Text
Introduced	Jun 29 2018	federal bill text	bill text

Amendments

Title	Description	Date	State Link	Text	Adopted
There are no amendments to this bill at this time

Committee

Chamber: H

Committee Name: Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations

Votes

There have not been any votes on this bill