Clean Hands Firearm Procurement Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4198 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4198

 To require the Attorney General to make publicly available a list of 
 federally licensed firearms dealers with a high number of short time-
   to-crime firearm traces, and to prohibit Federal departments and 
              agencies from contracting with such dealers.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 26, 2025

  Mr. Raskin introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
    Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on 
   Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Attorney General to make publicly available a list of 
 federally licensed firearms dealers with a high number of short time-
   to-crime firearm traces, and to prohibit Federal departments and 
              agencies from contracting with such dealers.

    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 ``Clean Hands Firearm Procurement 
Act''.

SEC. 2. FEDERAL GUN TRACING NOTIFICATIONS.

    Not later than 120 days after the date of enactment of this Act, 
and annually thereafter, the Attorney General, acting through the 
Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, 
shall publish or make publicly available a list of covered firearms 
dealers.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON FEDERAL CONTRACTS WITH CERTAIN FEDERAL FIREARMS 
              DEALERS.

    (a) Prohibition.--A Federal agency may not enter into a contract 
with a licensed dealer that has been listed as a covered firearms 
dealer during the current calendar year or either of the preceding 2 
calendar years.
    (b) Waiver Authority.--
            (1) In general.--Upon a request by the Secretary of Defense 
        or the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Attorney General may 
        waive the applicability of subsection (a) to a contract, to 
        protect the national security of the United States.
            (2) Notice.--The Attorney General shall immediately notify 
        the Chair and Ranking Minority Member of the Committee on the 
        Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Chair and 
        Ranking Minority Member of the Committee on the Judiciary of 
        the Senate of any waiver granted under paragraph (1). Notice 
        under this paragraph may be submitted in classified form.
    (c) Effective Date.--This section shall take effect 180 days after 
the date of enactment of this Act.

SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Covered firearms dealer.--The term ``covered firearms 
        dealer'' means a licensed dealer with respect to whom, during 
        not less than 2 of the 3 calendar years before the publication 
        of the applicable list under section 2, the National Tracing 
        Center of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and 
        Explosives has traced to the firearms business of the licensed 
        dealer not less than 25 firearms with a time-to-crime of not 
        more than 3 years.
            (2) Federal agency.--The term ``Federal agency'' means a 
        department, agency, office, or other establishment in the 
        executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of 
        the United States.
            (3) Firearm.--The term ``firearm'' has the meaning given 
        that term in section 921(a) of title 18, United States Code.
            (4) Licensed dealer.--The term ``licensed dealer'' has the 
        meaning given that term in section 921(a) of title 18, United 
        States Code.
            (5) Time-to-crime.--The term ``time-to-crime'' means, with 
        respect to a firearm, the period between the date of the last 
        known retail sale of the firearm and the date a law enforcement 
        agency recovers the firearm as a result of an actual or 
        suspected purchase, use, or possession of the firearm in, or 
        that constitutes, a crime.
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