3.0.0 2250 2026-08-10T11:51:27Z 2026-08-10T11:51:27Z Senate S S 2025-07-10 119 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/2250 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2025-07-10T16:53:14Z Restoring the Armed Career Criminal Act 119 4334 HR 2025-07-10 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. Identical bill CRS 2025-07-10 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. IntroReferral 2025-07-10 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress B001243 Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN] Marsha Blackburn R TN N C001095 Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR] Tom Cotton R AR 2025-07-10 True Crime and Law Enforcement Crime and Law Enforcement 2025-07-31T12:27:09Z 00 2025-07-10 Introduced in Senate 2026-04-24T17:03:28Z Restoring the Armed Career Criminal Act
 
This bill expands the criminal offenses that qualify as prior convictions for the purpose of enhanced sentencing under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA).
 
Currently, the ACCA imposes a 15-year mandatory minimum prison term on a defendant who possesses, receives, or transports a firearm as a prohibited person (e.g., felon) and has three or more prior convictions for a serious drug offense or violent felony (or both) committed on separate occasions.

The term serious drug offense means a federal or state offense with a statutory maximum prison term of 10 years or more. A state offense must involve the manufacture, distribution, or possession of a controlled substance as defined in the Controlled Substances Act.

The term violent felony means any crime punishable by a prison term of more than one year that (1) has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force; or (2) is burglary, arson, or extortion, or involves explosives.

This bill replaces serious drug offense and violent felony with a new category of qualifying prior offense: serious felony convictions. The term serious felony conviction means (1) any conviction that, at the time of sentencing, was a felony offense punishable by a statutory maximum prison term of 10 years or more; or (2) any group of convictions imposed in the same proceeding or in consolidated proceedings with a total prison term of 10 years of more, regardless of how many years the defendant served.

]]> Restoring the Armed Career Criminal Act Display Title 45 Restoring the Armed Career Criminal Act 2025-07-30T12:38:28Z Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 Restoring the Armed Career Criminal Act 2025-07-30T12:38:25Z Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced 6 A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, relating to sentencing of armed career criminals. 2025-07-30T12:33:52Z Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2025-07-10T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119s2250is/xml/BILLS-119s2250is.xml 2025-07-10 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.