Police Officers Protecting Children Act

Police Officers Protecting Children Act

This bill specifies that certain active and retired law enforcement officers who are authorized to carry concealed firearms are not subject to the federal prohibition on possessing (or discharging) a firearm in a school zone.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1567 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1567

  To allow certain qualified law enforcement officers and retired law 
 enforcement officers to carry a concealed firearm to protect children 
                           in a school zone.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 3, 2021

Mrs. Hartzler introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To allow certain qualified law enforcement officers and retired law 
 enforcement officers to carry a concealed firearm to protect children 
                           in a school zone.

    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 ``Police Officers Protecting Children 
Act''.

SEC. 2. CERTAIN QUALIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND RETIRED LAW 
              ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS ALLOWED TO CARRY A CONCEALED 
              FIREARM, AND DISCHARGE A FIREARM, IN A SCHOOL ZONE.

    Section 922(q) of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2)(B)--
                    (A) by striking ``or'' at the end of clause (vi); 
                and
                    (B) by redesignating clause (vii) as clause (ix) 
                and inserting after clause (vi) the following:
                    ``(vii) by a qualified law enforcement officer (as 
                defined in section 926B) who is authorized under such 
                section to carry a concealed firearm, if the firearm is 
                concealed;
                    ``(viii) by a qualified retired law enforcement 
                officer (as defined in section 926C) who is authorized 
                under such section to carry a concealed firearm, if the 
                firearm is concealed; or''; and
            (2) in paragraph (3)(B)--
                    (A) by striking ``or'' at the end of clause (iii);
                    (B) by striking the period at the end of clause 
                (iv) and inserting a semicolon; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(v) by a qualified law enforcement officer (as 
                defined in section 926B) who is authorized under such 
                section to carry a concealed firearm; or
                    ``(vi) by a qualified retired law enforcement 
                officer (as defined in section 926C) who is authorized 
                under such section to carry a concealed firearm.''.
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