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Bills/119th Congress · House

H.R. 4334

Introduced

Restoring the Armed Career Criminal Act

Sponsor
RDavid Kustoff· Tennessee
Introduced
July 10, 2025
Policy area
Crime and Law Enforcement
Latest action
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.July 10, 2025
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4334 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 4334

To amend title 18, United States Code, relating to sentencing of armed 
career criminals.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

July 10, 2025

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

_______________________________________________________________________

A BILL

To amend title 18, United States Code, relating to sentencing of armed 
career criminals.

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 ``Restoring the Armed Career Criminal 
Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO THE ARMED CAREER CRIMINAL ACT.

Section 924 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
(1) in subsection (a)(2), by striking ``(a)(6), (g), (h), 
(i), (j), or (o) of section 922'' and inserting ``(a)(6), (d), 
(h), (i), (j), or (o) of section 922, or, except as provided in 
subsection (e) of this section, subsection (g) of section 
922''; and
(2) by striking subsection (e) and inserting the following:
``(e)(1) Whoever knowingly violates section 922(g) and has 3 or 
more previous serious felony convictions for offenses committed on 
occasions different from one another shall be fined under this title 
and imprisoned not less than 15 years and not more than 30 years, and, 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, the court shall not suspend 
the sentence of, or grant a probationary sentence to, such person with 
respect to the conviction under section 922(g).
``(2) In this subsection--
``(A) the term `offense punishable by imprisonment for a 
statutory maximum term of not less than 10 years' includes an 
offense (without regard to the application of any sentencing 
guideline, statutory criterion, or judgment that may provide 
for a shorter period of imprisonment within the statutory 
sentencing range) for which the statute provides for a range in 
the period of imprisonment that may be imposed at sentencing 
the maximum term of which is not less than 10 years; and
``(B) the term `serious felony conviction' means--
``(i) any conviction by a court that, at the time 
of sentencing, was a felony offense punishable by 
imprisonment for a statutory maximum term of not less 
than 10 years; or
``(ii) any group of convictions for which a court 
imposed in the same proceeding or in consolidated 
proceedings a total term of imprisonment of not less 
than 10 years, regardless of how many years of that 
total term the defendant served in custody.''.

SEC. 3. APPLICABILITY.

(a) In General.--The amendments made by this Act shall apply to any 
offense committed after the date of enactment of this Act by an 
individual who, on the date on which the offense is committed, has 3 or 
more previous serious felony convictions, as defined in subsection (e) 
of section 924 of title 18, United States Code, as amended by this Act.
(b) Rule of Construction.--This Act and the amendments made by this 
Act shall not be construed to create any right to challenge a sentence 
imposed under subsection (e) of section 924 of title 18, United States 
Code.
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