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Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act of 2017 This bill amends the federal criminal code to: state that the term "intimate partner" includes a dating partner and any other person subject to a protection order under state domestic or family violence law; and expand the term "misdemeanor crime of domestic violence" to include the use or attempted use of physical force, or the threatened use of a deadly weapon, by a current or former intimate partner. The bill makes it a crime to knowingly sell or dispose of a firearm to a person who has been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of stalking. It also makes it a crime for such convicted stalker to receive or possess a firearm.

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Amy Klobuchar (D)*,  Michael Bennet (D),  Richard Blumenthal (D),  Cory Booker (D),  Tom Carper (D),  Bob Casey (D),  Chris Coons (D),  Dick Durbin (D),  Dianne Feinstein (D),  Kirsten Gillibrand (D),  Kamala Harris (D),  Maggie Hassan (D),  Mazie Hirono (D),  Doug Jones (D),  Patrick Leahy (D),  Ed Markey (D),  Bob Menendez (D),  Jeff Merkley (D),  Chris Murphy (D),  Bill Nelson (D),  Gary Peters (D),  Jack Reed (D),  Jeanne Shaheen (D),  Tina Smith (D),  Debbie Stabenow (D),  Jon Tester (D),  Tom Udall (D),  Chris Van Hollen (D),  Elizabeth Warren (D),  Sheldon Whitehouse (D),  Ron Wyden (D), 

Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held. (on 03/20/2018)

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