‘‘(b) LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES DESCRIBED.— 
The law enforcement agencies described in this subsection 
are the law enforcement agencies that have jurisdiction 
over the location from which the licensee contacted the 
system and the law enforcement agencies that have juris-
diction over the location of the residence of the person for 
which the background check was conducted, as follows: 
‘‘(1) The field office of the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation. 
‘‘(2) The local law enforcement agency. 
‘‘(3) The State law enforcement agency.’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents in 
section 1(b) of the NICS Improvement Amendments Act 
of 2007 (Public Law 110–180; 121 Stat. 2559) is amend-
ed by inserting after the item relating to section 106 the 
following: 
‘‘Sec. 107. Implementation plan. 
‘‘Sec. 108. Notification to law enforcement agencies of prohibited purchase of 
a firearm.’’. 
SEC. 206. ATTORNEY GENERAL REPORT ON USE OF BUMP 
STOCKS IN CRIME. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Using amounts made available for 
research, evaluation, or statistical purposes, within 180 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Attor-
ney General shall prepare and submit to the Committee 
on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the
Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate a written report 
that— 
(1) specifies the number of instances in which 
a bump stock has been used in the commission of a 
crime in the United States; 
(2) specifies the types of firearms with which a 
bump stock has been so used; and 
(3) contains the opinion of the Attorney Gen-
eral as to whether subparagraphs (B)(i) and (C)(i) 
of section 924(c)(1) of title 18, United States Code, 
apply to all instances in which a bump stock has 
been used in the commission of a crime of violence 
in the United States. 
(b) DEFINITION OF BUMP STOCK.—In this section, 
the term ‘‘bump stock’’ means a device that— 
(1) attaches to a semiautomatic rifle (as defined 
in section 921(a)(28) of title 18, United States 
Code); 
(2) is designed and intended to repeatedly acti-
vate the trigger without the deliberate and volitional 
act of the user pulling the trigger each time the fire-
arm is fired; and 
(3) functions by continuous forward pressure 
applied to the rifle’s fore end in conjunction with a 
linear forward and backward sliding motion of the
mechanism utilizing the recoil energy when the rifle 
is discharged. 
SEC. 207. AUTHORIZATIONS OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be appro-
priated $100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2018 
through 2022 to carry out, in accordance with the NICS 
Act Record Improvement Program and the National 
Criminal History Improvement Program, the activities 
under— 
(1) section 102 of the NICS Improvement 
Amendments Act of 2007; 
(2) section 103 of the NICS Improvement 
Amendments Act of 2007; 
(3) section 102 of the Crime Identification 
Technology Act of 1998; and 
(4) section 106(b) of the Brady Handgun Vio-
lence Prevention Act. 
(b) 
ADDITIONAL
AUTHORIZATIONS.—Section 
1001(a) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 
Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10261(a)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘$33,000,000’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘$31,000,000’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘1994 and 1995’’ and in-
serting ‘‘2018 through 2022’’; and
(C) by inserting ‘‘, in addition to any 
amounts otherwise made available for research, 
evaluation or statistical purposes in a fiscal 
year’’ before the period; and 
(2) in paragraph (2)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘$33,000,000’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘$27,000,000’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘1994 and 1995’’ and in-
serting ‘‘2018 through 2022’’; and 
(C) by inserting ‘‘, in addition to any 
amounts otherwise made available for research, 
evaluation or statistical purposes in a fiscal 
year’’ before the period. 
Passed the House of Representatives December 6, 
2017. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 38 
AN ACT 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide 
a means by which nonresidents of a State whose 
residents may carry concealed firearms may also 
do so in the State.