CONGRESS FOR VOTERS

Mike Bost (R-IL)

Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act

H.R. 1041 · House bill Armed Forces and National Security

A Republican bill with 70 Republican cosponsors · See all 70 cosponsors

Last activity — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

In the other chamber's committee

Passed one chamber and has been handed to a committee in the other.

The committee decides whether it goes any further, and most bills that reach a committee never leave it. A committee that simply does nothing kills a bill without anyone ever voting against it, so no news from here is usually the news.

Its path through Congress

  1. Introduced
  2. Passed House 216–201
  3. In Senate committee

What this bill would do

The Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act aims to amend title 38 of the United States Code. It prohibits the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from sharing a beneficiary's personally identifiable information with the Department of Justice for use in the national instant criminal background check system based solely on a determination to pay benefits to a fiduciary. Such information could only be transmitted if there is an order or finding by a judicial authority that the beneficiary is a danger to themselves or others. Additionally, the Act requires the Secretary to notify the Attorney General regarding the lack of basis for certain information transmittals. Finally, the bill ensures that a determination of mental incompetence or the requirement of a fiduciary is not sufficient to treat a person as a mental defective.

Yes· 3 of 7

  • Scored +7

    Does this protect people from being watched or searched?

    The bill prohibits the sharing of personally identifiable information with the DOJ without a judicial order.

  • Scored +6

    Does this protect the right to own guns?

    The bill restricts the transmission of veteran information to the national background check system unless a judicial finding of danger exists.

  • Scored +6

    Would veterans be better off under this, taking everything together?

    The bill protects veterans from having their personal data used for firearm restrictions without a specific judicial finding of danger.

The opposite

No question was scored the opposite.

What Congress actually voted on

2 recorded votes have been taken on this bill. One of them decided something; the rest moved it along.

  • The House: the vote on whether to pass the bill This is the real decision in this chamber. Passing here sends the bill to the other chamber, which must pass it too before it can go to the President. Passed 216 yes · 201 no

    See who voted how →

    05/21/2026 · Roll call 190 · recorded as “On Passage”