Title: Mandatory Minimum Sentence Reform Act
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Mandatory Minimum Sentence Reform Act
This bill creates an exception to certain mandatory minimum sentencing requirements.
Current law prohibits and imposes a mandatory minimum sentence for using, carrying, or possessing a firearm during a crime of violence. This bill excludes from the mandatory minimum sentencing requirement 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 firearm during a crime of violence.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1105 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1105

     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 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.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 18, 2021

  Mr. Burgess (for himself and Mr. Gohmert) 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 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.

    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 ``Mandatory Minimum Sentence Reform 
Act''.

SEC. 2. 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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