Title: Illegal Alien NICS Alert Act
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Illegal Alien NICS Alert Act
This bill requires the national instant criminal background check system to notify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and relevant state and local law enforcement agencies when the system indicates that a prospective firearm transferee is illegally or unlawfully in the United States.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1412 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1412

  To require the national instant criminal background check system to 
notify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the relevant State 
 and local law enforcement agencies whenever the information available 
 to the system indicates that a person illegally or unlawfully in the 
         United States may be attempting to receive a firearm.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 27, 2019

Mr. Steube (for himself, Mr. Collins of Georgia, Mr. Gaetz, Mr. Cline, 
Mr. Biggs, Mr. Buck, Mr. Reschenthaler, and Mr. Gohmert) introduced the 
  following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require the national instant criminal background check system to 
notify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the relevant State 
 and local law enforcement agencies whenever the information available 
 to the system indicates that a person illegally or unlawfully in the 
         United States may be attempting to receive a firearm.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Illegal Alien NICS Alert Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT THAT NICS NOTIFY ICE AND STATE AND LOCAL LAW 
              ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES OF ATTEMPTED RECEIPT OF FIREARM BY 
              PERSON ILLEGALLY OR UNLAWFULLY IN THE UNITED STATES.

    Section 103(e) of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (34 
U.S.C. 40901(e)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) Requirement to notify ice and state and local law 
        enforcement agencies of attempted receipt of firearm by person 
        illegally or unlawfully in the united states.--The Attorney 
        General shall ensure that, whenever the information available 
        to the system established under this section indicates that a 
        prospective firearm transferee is illegally or unlawfully in 
        the United States, the system shall transmit to the Immigration 
        and Customs Enforcement Agency and to relevant State and local 
        law enforcement agencies a notice that the person may have 
        attempted to receive a firearm in violation of section 
        922(g)(5) of title 18, United States Code, and shall include 
        with the notice all relevant information possessed by the 
        system.''.
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