21st Century NICS Act

H.R. 2319 · 116th Congress · Apr 12, 2019 · Lineage

A BILL

To improve the national instant criminal background check system in order to search the National Data Exchange database when conducting criminal background checks.

Section 1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the “21st Century NICS Act”.

Sec. 2 Requirement that the NICS system search the National Data Exchange database in conducting background checks

Section 103(e)(1) of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (34 U.S.C. 40901(e)(1)) is amended by adding at the end the following:

“(L) Search of National Data Exchange database—The system established under this section may search the database of the National Data Exchange in conducting a background check under this section.”

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Apr 12, 2019viewing Introduced in House Mr. Rice of South Carolina (for himself, Mr. Hudson, Mr. Diaz-Balart, Mr. Woodall, Mr. Conaway, Mr. Moolenaar, Mrs. Lesko, Mr. Stewart, Mr. Yoho, Mr. Marchant, Mr. Huizenga, Mr. Zeldin, Mr. Amodei, Mr. Gonzalez of Texas, and Ms. Torres Small of New Mexico) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

21st Century NICS Act

Section 1 Short title

Sec. 2 Requirement that the NICS system search the National Data Exchange database in conducting background checks

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