pursuant to State law and in accordance with the 
principles of due process, if the circumstances re-
garding the disabilities referred to in paragraph (1), 
and the person’s record and reputation, are such 
that the person will not be likely to act in a manner 
dangerous to public safety and that the granting of 
the relief would not be contrary to the public inter-
est; and 
(3) permits a person whose application for the 
relief is denied to file a petition with the State court 
of appropriate jurisdiction for a de novo judicial re-
view of the denial. 
(b) AUTHORITY TO PROVIDE RELIEF FROM CER-
TAIN DISABILITIES WITH RESPECT TO FIREARMS.—If, 
under a State relief from disabilities program implemented 
in accordance with this section, an application for relief 
referred to in subsection (a)(1) of this section is granted 
with respect to an adjudication or a commitment to a men-
tal institution, the adjudication or commitment, as the 
case may be, is deemed not to have occurred for purposes 
of subsections (d)(4) and (g)(4) of section 922 of title 18, 
United States Code.
TITLE II—FOCUSING FEDERAL 
ASSISTANCE 
ON 
THE 
IM-
PROVEMENT 
OF 
RELEVANT 
RECORDS 
SEC. 201. CONTINUING EVALUATIONS. 
(a) EVALUATION REQUIRED.—The Director of the 
Bureau of Justice Statistics (referred to in this section 
as the ‘‘Director’’) shall study and evaluate the operations 
of the National Instant Criminal Background Check Sys-
tem. Such study and evaluation shall include compilations 
and analyses of the operations and record systems of the 
agencies and organizations necessary to support such Sys-
tem. 
(b) REPORT ON GRANTS.—Not later than January 
31 of each year, the Director shall submit to Congress 
a report containing the estimates submitted by the States 
under section 102(b). 
(c) REPORT ON BEST PRACTICES.—Not later than 
January 31 of each year, the Director shall submit to Con-
gress, and to each State participating in the National 
Criminal History Improvement Program, a report of the 
practices of the States regarding the collection, mainte-
nance, automation, and transmittal of information rel-
evant to determining whether a person is prohibited from 
possessing or receiving a firearm by Federal or State law,
by the State or any other agency, or any other records 
relevant to the National Instant Criminal Background 
Check System, that the Director considers to be best prac-
tices. 
(d) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 
necessary for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2010 
to complete the studies, evaluations, and reports required 
under this section. 
TITLE III—GRANTS TO STATE 
COURT SYSTEMS FOR THE IM-
PROVEMENT IN AUTOMATION 
AND TRANSMITTAL OF DIS-
POSITION RECORDS 
SEC. 
301. 
DISPOSITION 
RECORDS 
AUTOMATION 
AND 
TRANSMITTAL IMPROVEMENT GRANTS. 
(a) GRANTS AUTHORIZED.—From amounts made 
available to carry out this section, the Attorney General 
shall make grants to each State, consistent with State 
plans for the integration, automation, and accessibility of 
criminal history records, for use by the State court system 
to improve the automation and transmittal of criminal his-
tory dispositions, records relevant to determining whether 
a person has been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of 
domestic violence, court orders, and mental health adju-
dications or commitments, to Federal and State record re-
positories in accordance with sections 102 and 103 and 
the National Criminal History Improvement Program. 
(b) GRANTS TO INDIAN TRIBES.—Up to 5 percent 
of the grant funding available under this section may be 
reserved for Indian tribal governments for use by Indian 
tribal judicial systems. 
(c) USE OF FUNDS.—Amounts granted under this 
section shall be used by the State court system only— 
(1) to carry out, as necessary, assessments of 
the capabilities of the courts of the State for the au-
tomation and transmission of arrest and conviction 
records, court orders, and mental health adjudica-
tions or commitments to Federal and State record 
repositories; and 
(2) to implement policies, systems, and proce-
dures for the automation and transmission of arrest 
and conviction records, court orders, and mental 
health adjudications or commitments to Federal and 
State record repositories. 
(d) ELIGIBILITY.—To be eligible to receive a grant 
under this section, a State shall certify, to the satisfaction 
of the Attorney General, that the State has implemented 
a relief from disabilities program in accordance with sec-
tion 105.
(e) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to the Attorney General 
to carry out this section $125,000,000 for each of the fis-
cal years 2008 through 2010. 
TITLE IV—GAO AUDIT 
SEC. 401. GAO AUDIT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Comptroller General of the 
United States shall conduct an audit of the expenditure 
of all funds appropriated for criminal records improve-
ment pursuant to section 106(b) of the Brady Handgun 
Violence Prevention Act (Public Law 103–159) to deter-
mine if the funds were expended for the purposes author-
ized by the Act and how those funds were expended for 
those purposes or were otherwise expended. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 6 months after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall 
submit a report to Congress describing the findings of the 
audit conducted pursuant to subsection (a). 
Passed the House of Representatives June 13, 2007. 
Attest: 
Clerk.