[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 321 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 321

  To amend the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2013 (Public Law 
    112-175) to permit research on firearms safety and gun violence.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 18, 2013

   Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York (for herself, Mr. Markey, Mr. 
   Levin, Ms. Slaughter, Mr. Van Hollen, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Mr. 
 Rangel, Ms. Speier, Ms. Lee of California, Ms. Schwartz, Mr. Capuano, 
Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Ellison, Ms. McCollum, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Moran, Ms. 
   Moore, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Cicilline, Ms. Jackson Lee, Ms. Chu, Ms. 
 Matsui, Ms. Norton, Mr. Quigley, Mr. Holt, Mr. Himes, Mr. Schiff, Ms. 
  Schakowsky, Mr. Doyle, Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, Ms. Shea-
Porter, Ms. Pingree of Maine, and Ms. Lofgren) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2013 (Public Law 
    112-175) to permit research on firearms safety and gun violence.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    The Act may be cited as the ``Firearm Safety and Public Health 
Research Act of 2013''.

SEC. 2. PERMITTING THE USE OF FEDERAL FUNDS FOR RESEARCH ON FIREARMS 
              SAFETY AND GUN VIOLENCE.

    The Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2013 (Public Law 112-175) 
is amended by inserting after section 155 the following:
    ``Sec. 156.  Notwithstanding section 101, sections 218 and 503(c) 
of division F of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012 (Public Law 
112-74) shall not apply to amounts made available by this joint 
resolution insofar as such sections relate to any activity to conduct 
research on firearms safety or gun violence.''.
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