HOUSE 974118th CongressReferred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Expressing support for the designation of the week of January 21 through January 27, 2024, as "National School Choice Week".
- Last Action
- 1/18/2024
Actions
- 2023-02-10Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
- 2023-02-10Introduced in House
- 2023-02-10Introduced in House
CRS Summary
As of 2023-02-10 (00)
ATF Improvement and Modernization Act of 2023 or the AIM Act of 2023
This bill removes limitations on the authority of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to conduct activities related to the administration of federal firearms laws.
Specifically, the bill removes provisions that
- limit the use of firearms tracing data;
- prohibit consolidating or centralizing records maintained by federal firearm licensees, or FFLs (e.g., gun dealers);
- prohibit imposing a requirement that gun dealers conduct a physical inventory;
- require national instant criminal background check records to be destroyed within 24 hours;
- limit the disclosure of data under the Freedom of Information Act;
- prohibit the ATF from altering the definition of or denying certain import applications for a curio or relic firearm;
- prohibit the denial of a federal firearms license due to lack of business activity;
- prohibit transferring the ATF's functions, missions, or activities to other agencies or departments;
- prohibit the electronic retrieval of information gathered from firearm transaction records of FFLs that go out of business; and
- prohibit the ATF from denying an application to import certain shotguns.
Additionally, the bill
- raises the liability standard for denying or revoking a federal firearms license from a willful violation to a knowing violation of federal firearms laws or regulations, and
- removes the de novo standard of judicial review for appealing the denial or revocation of a federal firearms license.
Cosponsors (20)
- Jamie Raskin (D-MD)
- Dina Titus (D-NV)
- Grace Meng (D-NY)
- Jake Auchincloss (D-MA)
- Seth Moulton (D-MA)
- Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ)
- William Keating (D-MA)
- Morgan McGarvey (D-KY)
- ELEANOR NORTON (D-DC)
- KWEISI MFUME (D-MD)
- Jennifer McClellan (D-VA)
- EARL BLUMENAUER (D-OR)
- Joyce Beatty (D-OH)
- Julia Brownley (D-CA)
- Joe Courtney (D-CT)
- Mary Scanlon (D-PA)
- Dwight Evans (D-PA)
- Judy Chu (D-CA)
- Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR)
- BARBARA LEE (D-CA)
Subjects
- Business records
- Crimes against property
- Criminal justice information and records
- Department of Justice
- Evidence and witnesses
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Firearms and explosives
- Freedom of information
- Historical and cultural resources
- Judicial review and appeals
- Law enforcement administration and funding
- Licensing and registrations
Sourced from Congress.gov (public domain).
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