I 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6697 
To amend title 18, United States Code, relating to sentencing of armed 
career criminals. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018 
Mr. KUSTOFF of Tennessee introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To amend title 18, United States Code, relating to sentencing 
of armed career criminals. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Restoring the Armed 
Career Criminal Act’’. 
SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO THE ARMED CAREER CRIMINAL 
ACT. 
Section 924 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended— 
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(1) in subsection (a)(2), by striking ‘‘(a)(6), 
(d), (g), (h), (i), (j), or (o) of section 922’’ and in-
serting ‘‘(a)(6), (d), (h), (i), (j), or (o) of section 
922, or, except as provided in subsection (e) of this 
section, subsection (g) of section 922’’; and 
(2) by striking subsection (e) and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(e)(1) Whoever knowingly violates section 922(g) 
and has 3 or more previous serious felony convictions for 
offenses committed on occasions different from one an-
other shall be fined under this title and imprisoned not 
less than 15 years and not more than 30 years, and, not-
withstanding any other provision of law, the court shall 
not suspend the sentence of, or grant a probationary sen-
tence to, such person with respect to the conviction under 
section 922(g). 
‘‘(2) In this subsection— 
‘‘(A) the term ‘offense punishable by imprison-
ment for a statutory maximum term of not less than 
10 years’ includes an offense (without regard to the 
application of any sentencing guideline, statutory 
criterion, or judgment that may provide for a short-
er period of imprisonment within the statutory sen-
tencing range) for which the statute provides for a 
range in the period of imprisonment that may be im-
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posed at sentencing the maximum term of which is 
not less than 10 years; and 
‘‘(B) the term ‘serious felony conviction’ 
means— 
‘‘(i) any conviction by a court referred to 
in section 922(g)(1) for an offense that, at the 
time of sentencing, was an offense punishable 
by imprisonment for a statutory maximum term 
of not less than 10 years; or 
‘‘(ii) any group of convictions for which a 
court referred to in section 922(g)(1) imposed 
in the same proceeding or in consolidated pro-
ceedings a total term of imprisonment not less 
than 10 years, regardless of how many years of 
that total term the defendant served in cus-
tody.’’. 
SEC. 3. APPLICABILITY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The amendments made by this 
Act shall apply to any offense committed after the date 
of enactment of this Act by an individual who, on the date 
on which the offense is committed, has 3 or more previous 
serious felony convictions (as defined in subsection (e) of 
section 924 of title 18, United States Code, as amended 
by this Act). 
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(b) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—This Act and the 
amendments made by this Act shall not be construed to 
create any right to challenge a sentence imposed under 
subsection (e) of section 924 of title 18, United States 
Code. 
SEC. 4. TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS. 
Section 2901(a) of title I of the Omnibus Crime Con-
trol and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10581(a)) 
is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘and’’; 
(2) in paragraph (2)— 
(A) in subparagraph (A)(ii), by striking ‘‘, 
as defined in section 924(e)(2)(A) of title 18, 
United States Code’’; and 
(B) in subparagraph (C), by striking the 
period and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(3) the term ‘serious drug offense’ means— 
‘‘(A) an offense under the Controlled Sub-
stances Act (21 U.S.C. 801 et seq.), the Con-
trolled Substances Import and Export Act (21 
U.S.C. 951 et seq.), or chapter 705 of title 46, 
United States Code, for which a maximum term 
of imprisonment of 10 years or more is pre-
scribed by law; or 
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