Title: Lori Jackson Domestic Violence Survivor Protection Act
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Lori Jackson Domestic Violence Survivor Protection Act
This bill amends the federal criminal code to modify the prohibition on firearm sale or transfer to or purchase or possession by an individual who is subject to a court order that restrains the individual from harassing, stalking, or threatening an intimate partner or child of an intimate partner. Specifically, the bill revises the elements of a qualifying court order. It also broadens the definition of "intimate partner" to include a dating partner or former dating partner.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2044 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2044

   To amend title 18, United States Code, to protect more victims of 
   domestic violence by preventing their abusers from possessing or 
              receiving firearms, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 31, 2017

  Mr. Blumenthal (for himself, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Reed, Ms. Hirono, Mr. 
  Markey, Mr. Durbin, Mrs. Gillibrand, Ms. Baldwin, Mrs. Murray, Ms. 
Warren, Ms. Duckworth, Mr. Brown, Mrs. Shaheen, Ms. Harris, Mr. Booker, 
and Mrs. Feinstein) introduced the following bill; which was read twice 
             and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 18, United States Code, to protect more victims of 
   domestic violence by preventing their abusers from possessing or 
              receiving firearms, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Lori Jackson Domestic Violence 
Survivor Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS OF ``INTIMATE PARTNER'' AND ``MISDEMEANOR CRIME OF 
              DOMESTIC VIOLENCE'' EXPANDED.

    Section 921(a) of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (32)--
                    (A) by striking ``and an individual'' and inserting 
                ``an individual''; and
                    (B) by inserting ``, or a dating partner (as 
                defined in section 2266) or former dating partner'' 
                before the period at the end; and
            (2) in paragraph (33)(A)(ii)--
                    (A) by striking ``or by'' and inserting ``by''; and
                    (B) by inserting ``, or by a dating partner (as 
                defined in section 2266) or former dating partner of 
                the victim'' before the period at the end.

SEC. 3. UNLAWFUL SALE OF FIREARM TO A PERSON SUBJECT TO COURT ORDER.

    Section 922(d)(8) of title 18, United States Code, is amended to 
read as follows:
            ``(8) is subject to a court order described in subsection 
        (g)(8); or''.

SEC. 4. LIST OF PERSONS SUBJECT TO A RESTRAINING OR SIMILAR ORDER 
              PROHIBITED FROM POSSESSING OR RECEIVING A FIREARM 
              EXPANDED.

    Section 922(g)(8) of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking 
        ``that'';
            (2) by striking subparagraphs (A) and (B) and inserting the 
        following:
                    ``(A)(i) that was issued after a hearing of which 
                such person received actual notice, and at which such 
                person had an opportunity to participate; or
                    ``(ii) in the case of an ex parte order, relating 
                to which notice and opportunity to be heard are 
                provided--
                            ``(I) within the time required by State, 
                        tribal, or territorial law; and
                            ``(II) in any event within a reasonable 
                        time after the order is issued, sufficient to 
                        protect the due process rights of the person;
                    ``(B) that restrains such person from--
                            ``(i) harassing, stalking, threatening, or 
                        engaging in other conduct that would put an 
                        individual in reasonable fear of bodily injury 
                        to such individual, including an order that was 
                        issued at the request of an employer on behalf 
                        of its employee or at the request of an 
                        institution of higher education on behalf of 
                        its student; or
                            ``(ii) intimidating or dissuading a witness 
                        from testifying in court; and''; and
            (3) in subparagraph (C)--
                    (A) by striking ``intimate partner or child'' each 
                place it appears and inserting ``individual described 
                in subparagraph (B)'';
                    (B) in clause (i), by inserting ``that'' before 
                ``includes''; and
                    (C) in clause (ii), by inserting ``that'' before 
                ``by its''.
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