S 2250 ยท Restoring the Armed Career Criminal Act
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
- Introduced
- Jul 10, 2025
- Latest action
- Jul 10, 2025
- Sponsor
- Sen. Marsha Blackburn [R-TN]
- Policy area
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Cosponsors
- 1
Summary
Restoring the Armed Career Criminal Act This bill expands the criminal offenses that qualify as prior convictions for the purpose of enhanced sentencing under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA). Currently, the ACCA imposes a 15-year mandatory minimum prison term on a defendant who possesses, receives, or transports a firearm as a prohibited person (e.g., felon) and has three or more prior convictions for a serious drug offense or violent felony (or both) committed on separate occasions. The term serious drug offense means a federal or state offense with a statutory maximum prison term of 10 years or more. A state offense must involve the manufacture, distribution, or possession of a controlled substance as defined in the Controlled Substances Act. The term violent felony means any crime punishable by a prison term of more than one year that (1) has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force; or (2) is burglary, arson, or extortion, or involves explosives. This bill replaces serious drug offense and violent felony with a new category of qualifying prior offense: serious felony convictions. The term serious felony conviction means (1) any conviction that, at the time of sentencing, was a felony offense punishable by a statutory maximum prison term of 10 years or more; or (2) any group of convictions imposed in the same proceeding or in consolidated proceedings with a total prison term of 10 years of more, regardless of how many years the defendant served.
Recent actions
- Jul 10, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
- Jul 10, 2025 Introduced in Senate
Votes
No recorded votes are available for this bill.