[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1520 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1520

           To protect victims of stalking from gun violence.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              June 4, 2015

  Ms. Klobuchar (for herself and Ms. Hirono) introduced the following 
    bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the 
                               Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
           To protect victims of stalking from 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.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting Domestic Violence and 
Stalking Victims Act of 2015''.

SEC. 2. ADDITION OF DATING PARTNERS AND INDIVIDUALS SUBJECT TO 
              RESTRAINING ORDERS.

    (a) Definition.--Section 921(a) of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) by striking paragraph (32) and inserting the following:
    ``(32) The term `intimate partner'--
            ``(A) means with respect to a person, the spouse of the 
        person, a former spouse of the person, an individual who is a 
        parent of a child of the person, and an individual who 
        cohabitates or has cohabited with the person; and
            ``(B) includes--
                    ``(i) a dating partner (as defined in section 
                2266); and
                    ``(ii) any other person similarly situated to a 
                spouse who is protected by the domestic or family 
                violence laws of the State or tribal jurisdiction in 
                which the injury occurred or where the victim 
                resides.''; and
            (2) in paragraph (33)(A)(ii)--
                    (A) by inserting ``intimate partner,'' after 
                ``former spouse,''; and
                    (B) by inserting ``intimate partner,'' after ``a 
                spouse,'' each place it appears.
    (b) Addition of Stalking.--Section 922 of title 18, United States 
Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (d)--
                    (A) in paragraph (8)(ii), by striking ``or'' at the 
                end;
                    (B) in paragraph (9), by striking the period at the 
                end and inserting ``; or''; and
                    (C) by inserting after paragraph (9) the following:
            ``(10) has been convicted in any court of a misdemeanor 
        crime of stalking.''; and
            (2) in subsection (g)--
                    (A) in paragraph (8)(C)(ii), by striking ``or'' at 
                the end;
                    (B) in paragraph (9), by striking the comma at the 
                end and inserting ``; or''; and
                    (C) by inserting after paragraph (9) the following:
            ``(10) has been convicted in any court of a misdemeanor 
        crime of stalking,''.
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