Bill Details
HR.129 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-01-03 - Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced Date
2025-01-03
Policy Area
Government Operations and Politics
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AI Summary This summary was generated by AI from the bill text. AI can get information wrong.
This bill would completely shut down the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, also known as the ATF. It is very short and direct: it does not explain how the agency would be closed, what would happen to its workers, or where its duties would go. The main purpose is simply to end the agency.
- The bill says the ATF would be abolished.
- It gives the bill a short name, but does not add any other details about how the change would work.
- No replacement agency or transfer plan is included in the text.
- The bill was introduced in the House and sent to the Judiciary Committee.
Official Summaries
Abolish the ATF Act
This bill abolishes the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 129 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 129
To abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 3, 2025
Ms. Boebert introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary
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A BILL
To abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
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 ``Abolish the ATF Act''.
SEC. 2. ABOLISHMENT OF THE BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, FIREARMS AND
EXPLOSIVES.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is hereby
abolished.
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