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S. 3254 · 116th CongressIn committee

Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act of 2020

Latest action. Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. · February 5, 2020

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What this bill would do
Official summary · Congressional Research Service

Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act of 2020

This bill makes various changes to the federal framework governing the sale, transfer, and possession of firearms and ammunition. Among other things, the bill does the following:

generally requires individuals to obtain a license to purchase, acquire, or possess a firearm or ammunition;

raises the minimum age—from 18 years to 21 years—to purchase firearms and ammunition;

establishes new background check requirements for firearm transfers between private parties;

requires law enforcement agencies to be notified following a firearms-related background check that results in a denial;

creates a statutory process for a family or household member to petition a court for an extreme risk protection order to remove firearms from an individual who poses a risk of committing violence;

restricts the import, sale, manufacture, transfer, or possession of semiautomatic assault weapons and large capacity ammunition feeding devices;

restricts the manufacture, sale, transfer, purchase, or receipt of ghost guns (i.e., guns without serial numbers);

makes trafficking in firearms a stand-alone criminal offense;

requires federally licensed gun dealers to submit and annually certify compliance with a security plan to detect and deter firearm theft;

removes limitations on the civil liability of gun manufacturers;

allows the Consumer Product Safety Commission to issue safety standards for firearms and firearm components;

establishes a community violence intervention grant program; and

promotes research on firearms safety and gun violence prevention.

Written by analysts at the Congressional Research Service and published on Congress.gov, not by Civibrief. Summarized at the "Introduced in Senate" stage on February 5, 2020. It describes the bill, it is not the legal text.

Status
Introduced
February 5, 2020
In committee
February 5, 2020
Passed a chamber
Cleared Congress
Enacted
Where this sits in the process
Common questions
Composed from the official record
Where is it in the process, and what happens next?

4 steps remain before this bill could become law.

The record's latest action, on February 5, 2020: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

  1. Clearing the committees it was referred to, and being scheduled for a floor vote
  2. Passage by the Senate
  3. Passage by the House
  4. The President's signature. If the President vetoes it, two-thirds of both chambers must vote to override.
How likely is it to become law?

Civibrief does not forecast outcomes and this page has no opinion about this one. What the record supports is a base rate, which is a fact about the whole pile, not a prediction about this measure.

In the 116th Congress (2019-20), 344 of the 14,345 bills and joint resolutions introduced became law, about 2.4 percent. That count covers every measure at every stage, including the many that never left committee.

This one is not there yet: 4 steps are still outstanding, listed above.

Has anyone actually voted on it?

No. No roll call in this Congress cites this measure. That is the ordinary outcome: most measures never reach a recorded floor vote, and a committee ends most of them simply by not acting.

A vote is not the only thing that happens to a measure. Hearings, markups, and referrals are all recorded actions, and none of them is a vote of the full chamber.

Who is behind it?

Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) introduced it on February 5, 2020, and 3 members have since signed on as cosponsors.

They are 3 Democrats.

Cosponsoring is a formal signature on the text. It is not a commitment to vote for the measure, it does not bind anyone's party, and a long list of cosponsors is a measure of attention rather than of prospects.

How long has it been in play?

It was introduced on February 5, 2020, 2409 days ago. The most recent recorded action was 2409 days ago, on February 5, 2020.

Measures do not carry over. Anything the 116th Congress has not finished by January 3, 2021 dies when the term ends, and has to be introduced again from the start in the next Congress.

Every answer above is assembled from this measure's own record on Congress.gov and from published counts of what Congress has passed before. Civibrief does not predict outcomes and takes no position on any measure.

Vote history

  1. Senate
    In committee, no floor vote yet
  2. House
    Awaits Senate passage
  3. President
    Awaits both chambers
No recorded votes yet
No roll call in this Congress cites this bill. Most bills die in committee without ever reaching a recorded floor vote.