[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8979 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8979

    To amend the Revised Statutes of the United States to eliminate 
              qualified immunity, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 16, 2020

   Mr. Hall introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Revised Statutes of the United States to eliminate 
              qualified immunity, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Qualified Immunity Abolition Act''.

SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF QUALIFIED IMMUNITY.

    Section 1979 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (42 
U.S.C. 1983) is amended by adding at the end the following: ``It shall 
not be a defense or immunity to any action brought under this section 
that the defendant was acting in good faith, or that the defendant 
believed, reasonably or otherwise, that his or her conduct was lawful 
at the time when it was committed. Nor shall it be a defense or 
immunity that the rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the 
Constitution or laws were not clearly established at the time of their 
deprivation by the defendant, or that the state of the law was 
otherwise such that the defendant could not reasonably have been 
expected to know whether his or her conduct was lawful.''.
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