Title: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Social Security Administration relating to Implementation of the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007.
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
This joint resolution nullifies the “Implementation of the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007” rule finalized by the Social Security Administration on December 19, 2016. The rule implements a plan to provide to the National Instant Criminal History Background Check System the name of an individual who meets certain criteria, including that benefit payments are made through a representative payee because the individual is determined to be mentally incapable of managing them. (Current law prohibits firearm sale or transfer to and purchase or possession by a person who has been adjudicated as a mental defective.)

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 40 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 40

  Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, 
   United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Social Security 
   Administration relating to Implementation of the NICS Improvement 
                        Amendments Act of 2007.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 30, 2017

  Mr. Sam Johnson of Texas (for himself, Mr. Abraham, Mr. Flores, Mr. 
King of Iowa, Mr. McKinley, Mr. Duncan of South Carolina, Mr. Wittman, 
  Mr. Wilson of South Carolina, Mr. Roe of Tennessee, Mr. Olson, Mr. 
  Rouzer, Mr. Poliquin, Mr. LaMalfa, Mr. McClintock, Mr. Messer, Mr. 
  Westerman, Mr. Jones, Mr. Aderholt, Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania, Mr. 
 Smith of Nebraska, Mrs. Walorski, Mr. McCaul, Mr. Franks of Arizona, 
Mr. Fleischmann, Mr. Mullin, Mr. Rogers of Alabama, Mr. Moolenaar, Mr. 
   Hultgren, Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania, Mr. Meadows, Mr. Weber of 
Texas, Mr. Smith of Texas, Mr. Brat, Mr. Babin, Mr. Hill, Mr. Yoho, Mr. 
 Smith of Missouri, Mr. Barr, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Harper, Mr. Schweikert, 
  Mr. Cramer, Mr. Allen, Mr. Marchant, Mr. Griffith, Mr. Harris, Mr. 
  Newhouse, Mr. Arrington, Mr. Long, Mr. Luetkemeyer, Mrs. Black, Mr. 
 Burgess, Mr. Palazzo, Mr. Emmer, Ms. McSally, Mr. Brooks of Alabama, 
 Mr. Renacci, Mr. Hensarling, Mr. Farenthold, Mr. Young of Alaska, Mr. 
Hudson, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. DesJarlais, Mr. Wenstrup, Mr. Jody B. Hice 
 of Georgia, Mr. Collins of Georgia, Mr. Byrne, Mr. Cole, Mr. Conaway, 
Mr. Thomas J. Rooney of Florida, Mr. Massie, Mr. Ratcliffe, Mr. Barton, 
  Mrs. Noem, Mr. Latta, Mr. Loudermilk, Mr. Collins of New York, Mr. 
Carter of Texas, Mr. Jenkins of West Virginia, Mr. Bishop of Utah, Mr. 
Higgins of Louisiana, Mr. Gosar, Mr. Marino, Mr. Peterson, Mr. Hunter, 
 Mr. Lamborn, Mr. Tiberi, Mr. Barletta, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Gohmert, Mr. 
   Poe of Texas, Mr. Banks of Indiana, Mr. Thornberry, Mr. Reed, Mr. 
Austin Scott of Georgia, Mr. Hurd, Mr. Bost, Mr. Guthrie, Mr. Williams, 
  Mr. Crawford, Mr. Posey, Mr. Nunes, Mr. Holding, Mrs. Hartzler, Ms. 
Foxx, Mr. Pittenger, Mr. Culberson, Mr. Graves of Georgia, Mr. Johnson 
    of Ohio, Mr. Roskam, Mr. Rothfus, Ms. Cheney, Mr. Labrador, Mr. 
 Russell, Ms. Granger, Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Shuster, Mr. Cook, Mrs. Love, 
Mr. Scalise, and Mr. Amodei) submitted the following joint resolution; 
          which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
  Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, 
   United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Social Security 
   Administration relating to Implementation of the NICS Improvement 
                        Amendments Act of 2007.

    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress disapproves the 
rule submitted by the Social Security Administration relating to 
Implementation of the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 
(published at 81 Fed. Reg. 91702 (December 19, 2016)), and such rule 
shall have no force or effect.
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