Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-1539
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2017-07-12
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses

Crime prevention

Crime victims

Domestic violence and child abuse

Firearms and explosives
Latest action: action_date: 2018-03-20
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-07-12
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act of 2017</b></p> <p>This bill amends the federal criminal code to:</p> <ul> <li> state that the term &quot;intimate partner&quot; includes a dating partner and any other person subject to a protection order under state domestic or family violence law; and</li> <li> expand the term &quot;misdemeanor crime of domestic violence&quot; to include the use or attempted use of physical force, or the threatened use of a deadly weapon, by a current or former intimate partner.</li> </ul> <p>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.</p>

tv_txt: II 115th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1539 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 A BILL To protect victims of stalking from gun violence.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act of 2017 . 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, .