Title: Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act of 2017
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act of 2017
This bill amends the federal criminal code to:
The bill makes it a crime to knowingly sell or dispose of a firearm to a person who has been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of stalking. It also makes it a crime for such convicted stalker to receive or possess a firearm.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1539 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1539

           To protect victims of stalking from gun violence.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 12, 2017

Ms. Klobuchar (for herself, Ms. Hirono, 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 protect victims of stalking from gun violence.

    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 ``Protecting Domestic Violence and 
Stalking Victims Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. ADDITION OF DATING PARTNERS AND INDIVIDUALS SUBJECT TO 
              RESTRAINING ORDERS.

    (a) Definition.--Section 921(a) of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) by striking paragraph (32) and inserting the following:
    ``(32) The term `intimate partner'--
            ``(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 
        cohabitates or has cohabited with the person; and
            ``(B) includes--
                    ``(i) a dating partner (as defined in section 
                2266); and
                    ``(ii) any other person similarly situated 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 
                resides.''; and
            (2) in paragraph (33)(A)(ii)--
                    (A) by inserting ``intimate partner,'' after 
                ``former spouse,''; and
                    (B) by inserting ``intimate partner,'' after ``a 
                spouse,'' each place it appears.
    (b) Addition of Stalking.--Section 922 of title 18, United States 
Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (d)--
                    (A) in paragraph (8)(ii), by striking ``or'' at the 
                end;
                    (B) in paragraph (9), by striking the period at the 
                end and inserting ``; or''; and
                    (C) by inserting after paragraph (9) the following:
            ``(10) has been convicted in any court of a misdemeanor 
        crime of stalking.''; and
            (2) in subsection (g)--
                    (A) in paragraph (8)(C)(ii), by striking ``or'' at 
                the end;
                    (B) in paragraph (9), by striking the comma at the 
                end and inserting ``; or''; and
                    (C) by inserting after paragraph (9) the following:
            ``(10) has been convicted in any court of a misdemeanor 
        crime of stalking,''.
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