Title: Congressional Personal Safety Act
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Congressional Personal Safety Act
This bill amends the federal criminal code to allow a Member of Congress who is carrying a valid Member identification document and who is not otherwise prohibited from transporting, shipping, or receiving a firearm to carry a firearm for any lawful purpose: (1) in any state; and (2) in the Capitol Buildings, other than the U.S. Capitol, and on the Capitol Grounds.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2945 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2945

 To grant Members of Congress the right to carry a firearm anywhere in 
        the United States, except in the United States Capitol.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 20, 2017

 Mr. Jody B. Hice of Georgia introduced the following bill; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To grant Members of Congress the right to carry a firearm anywhere in 
        the United States, except in the United States Capitol.

    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 ``Congressional Personal Safety Act''.

SEC. 2. RIGHT OF MEMBER OF CONGRESS TO CARRY A FIREARM ANYWHERE IN THE 
              UNITED STATES, EXCEPT IN THE UNITED STATES CAPITOL.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by inserting after section 926C the following:
``Sec. 926D. Carrying of firearms by Members of Congress
    ``(a) A Member of Congress who is carrying the identification 
required by subsection (b) and who is not otherwise prohibited by this 
chapter from transporting, shipping, or receiving a firearm may carry a 
firearm for any lawful purpose--
            ``(1) in any State, notwithstanding any law, rule, or 
        regulation of the State or any political subdivision thereof; 
        and
            ``(2) in the Capitol Buildings (as described in section 
        5101 of title 40, United States Code) other than the United 
        States Capitol, and on the United States Capitol Grounds (as 
        described in section 5102 of such title), notwithstanding 
        section 5104(e)(1) of such title.
    ``(b) The identification required by this subsection is the 
photographic identification issued by a House of the Congress that 
identifies the person photographed as a Member of that House.
    ``(c) In this section, the term `Member of Congress' means a 
Senator or a Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner 
to, the Congress.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections for such chapter is 
amended by inserting after the item relating to section 926C the 
following:

``926D. Carrying of firearms by Member of Congress.''.
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