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President Joe Biden will sign a bipartisan bill on Saturday to address gun violence before leaving for Europe, the White House announced Friday.
The bill amounts to the first major federal gun safety legislation in decades and marks a significant bipartisan breakthrough on one of the most contentious political issues in Washington.
House of Representatives passes first major federal gun safety bill in decades
The House approved the bill 234-193 on Friday, including 14 Republicans who voted with Democrats.
The Senate approved the bill in an overnight vote on Thursday.
The measure includes millions of dollars for mental health, school safety, crisis intervention programs and incentives for states to include juvenile criminal records in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).
It also makes significant changes to the process when an 18-21-year-old goes to buy a firearm and ends the couples loophole, a victory for Democrats, who have long fought for it.
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The package represents the most significant new federal legislation to address gun violence since the 10-year assault weapons ban that expired in 1994, though it doesn't ban any guns and falls far short of what Democrats and polls show the most Americans want to see.
Securing bipartisan agreement on important legislation has been notoriously difficult for lawmakers in recent years, even in the face of countless mass shootings across the country.
Democrats, in particular, have been quick to celebrate the bipartisan gun deal, as action to address gun violence is a top priority for the party.
But the bill's passage through the House was overshadowed Friday by news that the Supreme Court had struck down Roe v.
Wade, arguing that there is no longer a federal constitutional right to abortion.
The opinion is the most important Supreme Court decision in decades and will transform the landscape of women's reproductive health in the United States.
It came a day after the Supreme Court struck down a New York gun law enacted more than a century ago that places restrictions on carrying a concealed firearm outside the home.
The rulings once again highlight the limited power of the Democratic Party, even though it controls both branches of Congress and the White House.
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Despite broad bipartisan support for the bill in the Senate, top House Republican leaders opposed the bill and urged their members to vote "no."
However, fourteen House Republicans voted in favor of the bill:
Liz Cheney from Wyoming
Adam Kinzinger of Illinois
Tom Rice of South Carolina
John Katko of New York
Maria Salazar from Florida
Chris Jacobs from New York
Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania
Peter Meijer of Michigan
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Tony Gonzalez of Texas
Steve Chabot of Ohio
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David Joyce of Ohio
Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio
The bill passed the Senate on Thursday with 15 Republicans joining Democrats in support.
The final count was 65-33.
The legislation came in the wake of recent mass shootings at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, which was in a predominantly black neighborhood.
A bipartisan group of negotiators went to work in the Senate and released the legislative text on Tuesday.
The bill, titled ·Bipartisan Safer Communities Act·, was published by Republican Senators John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Democratic Senators Chris Murphy of Connecticut and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona.
Lawmakers then rushed to pass the bill before leaving Washington for the July 4 recess.
As lawmakers searched for a compromise, there were points where it was unclear whether the effort would succeed or fail.
But while the bipartisan effort appeared to be at risk after several key sticking points emerged, negotiators were ultimately able to resolve the issues that arose.
Key provisions in the bill
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The bill includes $750 million to help states implement and run crisis intervention programs.
The money can be used to implement and administer early warning programs, which through court orders can temporarily prevent people in crisis from accessing firearms, and for other crisis intervention programs, such as mental health courts, drug and veterans courts.
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This bill closes a years-long loophole in domestic violence law, the "partnership loophole," that prohibited people who had been convicted of domestic violence crimes against spouses, co-parents, or partners with whom they cohabited had weapons.
The old statutes did not include intimate partners who cannot live together, be married, or share children.
The law will now prohibit anyone convicted of a crime of domestic violence against someone with whom they have a "continuing serious relationship of a romantic or intimate nature" from owning a weapon.
The law is not retroactive.
However, it will allow those convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence to have their gun rights restored after five years if they have committed no other crimes.
The bill encourages states to include juvenile criminal records in the NICS with grants and implements a new protocol for checking those records.
The bill goes after people who sell guns as their primary source of income but have previously evaded registering as a federally licensed firearms dealer.
It also increases funding for mental health and school safety programs.
Vogue's Ariane, Lauren Fox, Ali Zaslav, Melanie Zanona and CNN's Jeremy Herb contributed to this report.
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