Title: To allow Members of Congress to carry a concealed handgun anywhere in the United States, with exceptions.
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
This bill allows a Member of Congress to carry a concealed handgun for any lawful purpose anywhere in the United States, except on the grounds of the White House, wherever the U.S. Secret Service is prohibiting the possession of a firearm, or on an air carrier (unless the Member has successfully completed the federal flight deck officer training program), provided that such Member:
The Chief of the U.S. Capitol Police is authorized to issue such a license or permit.
The Senators' Official Personnel and Office Expense Account and the House of Representatives' Members' Representational Allowance may be used to pay for a a Member's participation in the federal flight deck officer training program, which the Department of Homeland Security must make available.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2951 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2951

 To allow Members of Congress to carry a concealed handgun anywhere in 
                  the United States, with exceptions.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 20, 2017

  Mr. Babin introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on House 
Administration, and Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To allow Members of Congress to carry a concealed handgun anywhere in 
                  the United States, with exceptions.

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

SECTION 1. CARRYING OF CONCEALED HANDGUNS BY MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by inserting after section 926C the following:
``Sec. 926D. Carrying of concealed handguns by Members of Congress
    ``(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a Member of 
Congress who is carrying the identification required by subsection (e), 
to whom a State or the United States Capitol Police has issued a 
license or permit to carry a concealed handgun, and who is not 
otherwise prohibited by this chapter from transporting, shipping, or 
receiving a firearm, may carry a concealed handgun for any lawful 
purpose, subject to the terms and conditions of the license or permit 
(if issued by the United States Capitol Police), anywhere in the United 
States, except as provided in subsection (b).
    ``(b)(1) Subsection (a) shall not apply in or on the grounds of the 
White House, or wherever the United States Secret Service is 
prohibiting the possession of a firearm.
    ``(2) Subsection (a) shall not apply to a Member of Congress while 
on an air carrier, unless the Secretary of Homeland Security finds that 
the Member of Congress has successfully completed the training program 
established under section 44921(c) of title 49.
    ``(c) The Chief of the United States Capitol Police is authorized 
to issue a license or permit to carry a concealed handgun to a Member 
of Congress for purposes of this section, under such terms and 
conditions and in accordance with such criteria as the Chief considers 
appropriate.
    ``(d) The Secretary of Homeland Security shall ensure that the 
training program established under section 44921(c) of title 49 is made 
available to any Member of Congress, on request of the Member of 
Congress.
    ``(e) 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.
    ``(f) 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 concealed handguns by Members of Congress.''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZING MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO USE OFFICIAL FUNDS TO PAY 
              FOR FIREARMS TRAINING PROGRAM.

    (a) Senators.--The Senators' Official Personnel and Office Expense 
Account may be used to pay for the Senator to receive training under 
the program established under section 44921(c) of title 49, United 
States Code.
    (b) Members of the House of Representatives.--Section 101 of the 
House of Representatives Administrative Reform Technical Corrections 
Act (2 U.S.C. 5341) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsections (b) through (e) as 
        subsections (c) through (f); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (a) the following new 
        subsection:
    ``(b) Firearms Training Program.--The Members' Representational 
Allowance may be used to pay for the Member to receive training under 
the program established under section 44921(c) of title 49, United 
States Code.''.
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