SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Clean Hands Firearm 
Procurement Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FEDERAL GUN TRACING NOTIFICATIONS. 
Not later than 120 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Attorney General, 
acting through the Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, To-
bacco, Firearms, and Explosives, shall publish or make 
publicly available a list of covered firearms dealers. 
SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON FEDERAL CONTRACTS WITH CER-
TAIN FEDERAL FIREARMS DEALERS. 
(a) PROHIBITION.—A Federal agency may not enter 
into a contract with a licensed dealer that has been listed 
as a covered firearms dealer during the current calendar 
year or either of the preceding 2 calendar years. 
(b) WAIVER AUTHORITY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Upon a request by the Sec-
retary of Defense or the Secretary of Homeland Se-
curity, the Attorney General may waive the applica-
bility of subsection (a) to a contract, to protect the 
national security of the United States. 
(2) NOTICE.—The Attorney General shall im-
mediately notify the Chair and Ranking Minority 
Member of the Committee on the Judiciary of the 
House of Representatives and the Chair and Rank-
ing Minority Member of the Committee on the Judi-
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ciary of the Senate of any waiver granted under 
paragraph (1). Notice under this paragraph may be 
submitted in classified form. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section shall take effect 
180 days after the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) COVERED
FIREARMS
DEALER.—The term 
‘‘covered firearms dealer’’ means a licensed dealer 
with respect to whom, during not less than 2 of the 
3 calendar years before the publication of the appli-
cable list under section 2, the National Tracing Cen-
ter of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, 
and Explosives has traced to the firearms business 
of the licensed dealer not less than 25 firearms with 
a time-to-crime of not more than 3 years. 
(2) FEDERAL
AGENCY.—The term ‘‘Federal 
agency’’ means a department, agency, office, or 
other establishment in the executive, legislative, or 
judicial branch of the Government of the United 
States. 
(3) FIREARM.—The term ‘‘firearm’’ has the 
meaning given that term in section 921(a) of title 
18, United States Code. 
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(4) LICENSED
DEALER.—The term ‘‘licensed 
dealer’’ has the meaning given that term in section 
921(a) of title 18, United States Code. 
(5) 
TIME-TO-CRIME.—The 
term 
‘‘time-to- 
crime’’ means, with respect to a firearm, the period 
between the date of the last known retail sale of the 
firearm and the date a law enforcement agency re-
covers the firearm as a result of an actual or sus-
pected purchase, use, or possession of the firearm in, 
or that constitutes, a crime. 
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