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SAFE Act
4/17/2024, 11:44 PM
Summary of Bill HR 2872
The bill proposes several key provisions, including expanding background checks to cover all gun sales, including those made online and at gun shows. This would close the so-called "gun show loophole" that currently allows individuals to purchase firearms without undergoing a background check. The SAFE Act also seeks to improve the reporting of mental health records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), in order to better identify individuals who should be prohibited from purchasing guns.
Additionally, the bill includes measures to enhance the enforcement of existing gun laws, such as increasing funding for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to crack down on illegal gun trafficking. The SAFE Act also includes provisions to improve school safety and support programs aimed at preventing gun violence. Overall, the SAFE Act is a comprehensive piece of legislation that seeks to address the issue of gun violence in a thoughtful and non-partisan manner. It aims to strengthen background checks, improve mental health reporting, enhance enforcement of existing laws, and support initiatives to prevent gun violence.
Congressional Summary of HR 2872
Safeguarding America's Future and Environment Act or the SAFE Act
The bill requires the development of an integrated national approach to help fish, wildlife, and plants adapt to extreme weather changes and climate change.
Specifically, the bill requires the President to establish an interagency National Fish, Wildlife, and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy Joint Implementation Working Group. The working group must adopt the 2013 National Fish, Wildlife, and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy, which addresses the effects of extreme weather and climate change on fish, wildlife, and plants.
After the Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences releases a periodic scientific assessment required under the U.S. Global Change Research Program, the working group must use sound science to review and revise the strategy to incorporate new information and advances in the development of strategies to help fish, wildlife, and plants adapt. Each federal agency must integrate the strategy into agency plans, environmental reviews, and programs.
The Department of the Interior must establish a National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center to assess and develop scientific information, tools, strategies, and techniques to support the working group and other interested parties in addressing the effects of extreme weather and climate change.
Interior must establish an Advisory Committee on Climate Change and Natural Resource Sciences to advise the working group.
