I 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1906 
To amend title 18, United States Code to prohibit persons convicted of 
misdemeanor crimes against dating partners and persons subject to pro-
tection orders from possessing firearms, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 16, 2021 
Mr. BROWN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To amend title 18, United States Code to prohibit persons 
convicted of misdemeanor crimes against dating partners 
and persons subject to protection orders from possessing 
firearms, and for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Protecting Domestic 
Violence and Stalking Victims Act of 2021’’. 
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SEC. 2. PROHIBITING PERSONS CONVICTED OF MIS-
DEMEANOR CRIMES AGAINST DATING PART-
NERS AND PERSONS SUBJECT TO PROTEC-
TION ORDERS. 
Section 921(a) of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in paragraph (32), by striking all that fol-
lows after ‘‘The term ‘intimate partner’ ’’ and insert-
ing the following: ‘‘— 
‘‘(A) means, with respect to a person, the 
spouse of the person, a former spouse of the 
person, an individual who is a parent of a child 
of the person, and an individual who cohabi-
tates or has cohabited with the person; and 
‘‘(B) includes— 
‘‘(i) a dating partner or former dating 
partner (as defined in section 2266); and 
‘‘(ii) any other person similarly situ-
ated to a spouse who is protected by the 
domestic or family violence laws of the 
State or Tribal jurisdiction in which the 
injury occurred or where the victim re-
sides.’’; 
(2) in paragraph (33)(A)— 
(A) in clause (i), by inserting after ‘‘Fed-
eral, State,’’ the following: ‘‘municipal,’’; and 
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(B) in clause (ii), by inserting ‘‘intimate 
partner,’’ after ‘‘spouse,’’ each place it appears; 
(3) by redesignating paragraphs (34) and (35) 
as paragraphs (35) and (36) respectively; and 
(4) by inserting after paragraph (33) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(34)(A) The term ‘misdemeanor crime of stalking’ 
means an offense that— 
‘‘(i) is a misdemeanor crime of stalking under 
Federal, State, Tribal, or municipal law; and 
‘‘(ii) is a course of harassment, intimidation, or 
surveillance of another person that— 
‘‘(I) places that person in reasonable fear 
of material harm to the health or safety of— 
‘‘(aa) that person; 
‘‘(bb) an immediate family member 
(as defined in section 115) of that person; 
‘‘(cc) a household member of that per-
son; or 
‘‘(dd) a spouse or intimate partner of 
that person; or 
‘‘(II) causes, attempts to cause, or would 
reasonably be expected to cause emotional dis-
tress to a person described in item (aa), (bb), 
(cc), or (dd) of subclause (I). 
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‘‘(B) A person shall not be considered to have been 
convicted of such an offense for purposes of this chapter, 
unless— 
‘‘(i) the person was represented by counsel in 
the case, or knowingly and intelligently waived the 
right to counsel in the case; and 
‘‘(ii) in the case of a prosecution for an offense 
described in this paragraph for which a person was 
entitled to a jury trial in the jurisdiction in which 
the case was tried, either— 
‘‘(I) the case was tried by a jury; or 
‘‘(II) the person knowingly and intel-
ligently waived the right to have the case tried 
by a jury, by guilty plea or otherwise. 
‘‘(C) A person shall not be considered to have been 
convicted of such an offense for purposes of this chapter 
if the conviction has been expunged or set aside, or is an 
offense for which the person has been pardoned or has 
had civil rights restored (if the law of the applicable juris-
diction provides for the loss of civil rights under such an 
offense) unless the pardon, expungement, or restoration 
of civil rights expressly provides that the person may not 
ship, transport, possess, or receive firearms.’’. 
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