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H.R. 1181, Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act 1 (March 10, 2017)

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                 CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE
                            COST   ESTIMATE

                                                                 March 10, 2017



                                 H.R.   1181
                 Veterans  2nd  Amendment Protection Act

          As ordered reported by the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs
                                on March 8, 2017


H.R. 1181 would modify an existing requirement that certain individuals determined to be
mentally incompetent by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) be prohibited from
purchasing or possessing legal firearms. CBO expects that implementing H.R. 1181 would
have no significant budgetary effect.

Under current law, when VA deems individuals to be mentally incapacitated, mentally
incompetent, experiencing an extended loss of consciousness, or otherwise unable to
manage their own affairs, the department is required to provide that information to the
Department of Justice (DOJ). Such individuals are then added to the list of those prohibited
from purchasing or possessing firearms. Under H.R. 1181, a judicial authority would have
to determine that veterans are dangerous before VA would be required to report them to
DOJ. CBO  expects that such a requirement would have an insignificant effect on VA's
workload.

Enacting H.R. 1181 would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go
procedures do not apply.

CBO  estimates that enacting H.R. 1181 would not increase net direct spending or
on-budget deficits in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods beginning in 2028.

H.R. 1181 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the
Unfunded Mandates Reform  Act and would not affect the budgets of state, local, or tribal
governments.

The CBO  staff contact for this estimate is Dwayne M. Wright. The estimate was approved
by H. Samuel Papenfuss, Deputy Assistant Director for Budget Analysis.

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