[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 59 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 H. R. 59

  To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide that the firearms 
 prohibitions applicable by reason of a domestic violence misdemeanor 
     conviction do not apply if the conviction occurred before the 
                        prohibitions became law.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 6, 1999

 Mr. Barr of Georgia introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                   to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide that the firearms 
 prohibitions applicable by reason of a domestic violence misdemeanor 
     conviction do not apply if the conviction occurred before the 
                        prohibitions became law.

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

SECTION 1. FIREARMS PROHIBITIONS APPLICABLE BY REASON OF A DOMESTIC 
              VIOLENCE MISDEMEANOR CONVICTION NOT TO APPLY TO 
              CONVICTIONS OBTAINED BEFORE THE PROHIBITIONS BECAME LAW.

    Subsections (d)(9), (g)(9), and (s)(3)(B)(i) of section 922 of 
title 18, United States Code, are each amended by inserting ``, on or 
after September 28, 1996,'' before ``of a misdemeanor''.
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