Second Amendment is Essential Act of 2021
Summary
Second Amendment is Essential Act of 2021 This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security to designate the business of importing, manufacturing, or dealing firearms, or importing or manufacturing ammunition, as a critical infrastructure sector. Additionally, the bill states that individuals who are employed by those entities are critical infrastructure workers. The term critical infrastructure means systems and assets, physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health and safety, or any combination of those matters.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jun 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Jun 22, 2021
Last action Nov 1, 2022
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Actions timeline
Total actions
4
Key actions
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Committee
2
Nov 1, 2022
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
lower
Jun 22, 2021
Committee
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
lower
Jun 22, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 37 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Dan Newhouse
RRepublican
Co
Alexander X. Mooney
RRepublican
Co
Andy Harris
RRepublican
Co
Bill Johnson
RRepublican
Co
Bob Gibbs
RRepublican
Co
Brian Babin
RRepublican
Co
Chris Stewart
RRepublican
Co
Claudia Tenney
RRepublican
Co
Dan Bishop
RRepublican
Co
Dan Crenshaw
RRepublican
Co
David B. McKinley
RRepublican
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