Protect Against School Shootings Act or the PASS Act
This bill broadens the authority for certain individuals to carry concealed firearms in a school zone.
Specifically, the bill exempts the following categories of individuals from the federal prohibition on possessing (or discharging) a firearm in a school zone:
To amend the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990 to permit qualified law 
 enforcement officers, qualified retired law enforcement officers, and 
 persons not prohibited by State law from carrying a concealed firearm 
 to carry a firearm, and to discharge a firearm in defense of self or 
                       others, in a school zone.

    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 ``Protect Against School Shootings 
Act'' or the ``PASS Act''.

SEC. 2. USE OF FIREARMS IN SCHOOL ZONES BY QUALIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT 
              OFFICERS, QUALIFIED RETIRED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, AND 
              PERSONS NOT PROHIBITED BY STATE LAW FROM CARRYING A 
              CONCEALED FIREARM.

    Section 922(q) of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2)(B)--
                    (A) in clause (vi), by striking ``or'' at the end;
                    (B) in clause (vii), by striking the period at the 
                end and inserting ``; or''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(viii) by a person who, under section 926B or 926C or the 
        law of a State, may carry a concealed firearm.''; and
            (2) in paragraph (3)(B)--
                    (A) in clause (iii), by striking ``or'' at the end;
                    (B) in clause (iv), by striking the period at the 
                end and inserting ``; or''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(v) by a person who, under section 926B or 926C or the 
        law of a State, may carry a concealed firearm.''.
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PASS Act
To amend the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990 to permit qualified law enforcement officers, qualified retired law enforcement officers, and persons not prohibited by State law from carrying a concealed firearm to carry a firearm, and to discharge a firearm in defense of self or others, in a school zone.
PASS Act
Protect Against School Shootings Act
Rep. Weber, Randy K., Sr.