HR 1258 United States House · 118th Congress

Protecting Gun Rights and Due Process Act

This bill amends federal gun law to clarify definitions related to mental health and gun ownership, replacing terms like "mental defective" with "mentally incompetent" and "mental institution" with "psychiatric hospital." It creates a process for reviewing veterans' records to ensure they weren't improperly disqualified from gun ownership based on mental health determinations. The bill requires the Attorney General to annually review records and identify inaccurate disqualifications, with funds being rescinded for each record that doesn't meet the new criteria. It also prevents certain administrative decisions, like appointing representative payees for Social Security benefits, from automatically disqualifying people from gun ownership. The goal is to ensure only individuals who meet specific legal criteria are prohibited from owning firearms, while protecting the rights of those who should not be disqualified.
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Feb 2023
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Introduced Feb 28, 2023 Last action Mar 10, 2023
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Mar 10, 2023
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce.
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Feb 28, 2023
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Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Appropriations, Veterans' Affairs, Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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Feb 28, 2023
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Scott Perry
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