[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6367 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6367

     To provide an exception to certain mandatory minimum sentence 
   requirements for a law enforcement officer who uses, carries, or 
   possesses a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence 
          committed while pursuing or apprehending a suspect.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 25, 2008

Mr. Brady of Texas (for himself, Mr. McCaul of Texas, Mr. Marchant, Mr. 
   Sam Johnson of Texas, Mr. Bilbray, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Shadegg, Mr. 
 Rohrabacher, Mr. Jones of North Carolina, Mr. Poe, and Mr. Culberson) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
     To provide an exception to certain mandatory minimum sentence 
   requirements for a law enforcement officer who uses, carries, or 
   possesses a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence 
          committed while pursuing or apprehending a suspect.

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

SECTION 1. EXCEPTION TO CERTAIN MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCING 
              REQUIREMENTS FOR A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER WHO USES, 
              CARRIES, OR POSSESSES A FIREARM DURING AND IN RELATION TO 
              A CRIME OF VIOLENCE COMMITTED WHILE PURSUING OR 
              APPREHENDING A SUSPECT.

    Section 924(c)(1) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by 
redesignating subparagraphs (B) through (D) as subparagraphs (C) 
through (E), respectively, and inserting after subparagraph (A) the 
following:
    ``(B) The minimum sentencing requirements of subparagraph (A) shall 
not apply if--
            ``(i) at the time the person used, carried, or possessed 
        the firearm, the person was a law enforcement officer 
        authorized to carry the firearm;
            ``(ii) the offense under this paragraph occurred while the 
        person was on-duty, and during or in relation to the pursuit or 
        apprehension of an individual who the person reasonably 
        believed had committed a crime; and
            ``(iii) the crime committed by the person during and in 
        relation to which the offense under this paragraph occurred is 
        a crime of violence.''.
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