I 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3153 
To amend title 18, United States Code, relating to sentencing of armed 
career criminals. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 12, 2021 
Mr. KUSTOFF (for himself and Mr. GUEST) 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 of not 
less than 10 years, regardless of how many 
years of that total term the defendant served in 
custody.’’. 
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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