[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1084 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1084

   To amend the provisions of title 18, United States Code, placing 
 restrictions on the sale of handguns to require a purchaser to reveal 
    if the purchaser is the subject of a court order of protection.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 17, 1997

 Mr. Ackerman (for himself and Mrs. Roukema) introduced the following 
       bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the provisions of title 18, United States Code, placing 
 restrictions on the sale of handguns to require a purchaser to reveal 
    if the purchaser is the subject of a court order of protection.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Protective Order Enforcement Act.''.

SEC. 2. PROTECTION ORDER.

    Section 922(s)(3)(B) of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``and'' at the end of clause (vi),
            (2) by inserting ``and'' at the end of clause (vii), and
            (3) by inserting after clause (vii) the following:
                    ``(viii) is not subject to a court order that 
                restrains such person from harassing, stalking, or 
                threatening an intimate partner of such person or child 
                of such intimate partner or person, or engaging in any 
                other conduct that would place an intimate partner in 
                reasonable fear of bodily injury to the partner or 
                child.''.
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