Title: To provide an exception to certain mandatory minimum sentence requirements for a person employed outside the United States by a Federal agency, who uses, carries, or possesses the firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence committed while on-duty with a firearm required to be carried while on-duty.
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
This bill amends the federal criminal code to exclude from certain minimum sentencing requirements a federal employee outside the United States who is required to carry a firearm while on duty and who, while on duty, uses, carries, or possesses the a firearm in a crime of violence.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4590 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4590

     To provide an exception to certain mandatory minimum sentence 
   requirements for a person employed outside the United States by a 
Federal agency, who uses, carries, or possesses the firearm during and 
   in relation to a crime of violence committed while on-duty with a 
             firearm required to be carried while on-duty.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 7, 2017

    Mr. Burgess (for himself, Mr. Brady of Texas, Mr. Cole, and Mr. 
  Wenstrup) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
     To provide an exception to certain mandatory minimum sentence 
   requirements for a person employed outside the United States by a 
Federal agency, who uses, carries, or possesses the firearm during and 
   in relation to a crime of violence committed while on-duty with a 
             firearm required to be carried while on-duty.

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

SECTION 1. EXCEPTION TO CERTAIN MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCING 
              REQUIREMENTS FOR PERSON EMPLOYED OUTSIDE THE UNITED 
              STATES BY A FEDERAL AGENCY, WHO USES, CARRIES, OR 
              POSSESSES A FIREARM DURING AND IN RELATION TO A CRIME OF 
              VIOLENCE COMMITTED WHILE ON-DUTY WITH A FIREARM REQUIRED 
              TO BE CARRIED WHILE ON-DUTY.

    Section 3261 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(e) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, if the 
offense is a violation of section 924(c)(1) of this title, the minimum 
sentencing requirements of section 924(c)(1)(A) of this title shall not 
apply if--
            ``(1) the person committed a crime of violence during and 
        in relation to the offense;
            ``(2) an agency of the United States required the person to 
        carry a firearm while on-duty; and
            ``(3) at the time the person used, carried, or possessed 
        the firearm, the person was employed outside the United States 
        by the agency, and was on-duty.''.
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