Title: Safe Homefront Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Safe Homefront Act
This bill requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to provide the Department of Justice with records that are relevant to a determination, under the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, as to whether a member of the Armed Forces is disqualified from possessing or receiving a firearm. Additionally, DOD must conduct a study on the feasibility of establishing a database of military protective orders issued by military commanders against individuals suspected of having committed an offense of domestic violence.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4264 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4264

  To require the Secretary of Defense make available certain records 
relevant to a determination of whether a member of the Armed Forces is 
  disqualified from possessing or receiving a firearm, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 10, 2019

   Mr. Connolly (for himself, Mr. King of New York, and Mr. Turner) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for 
a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
                          committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require the Secretary of Defense make available certain records 
relevant to a determination of whether a member of the Armed Forces is 
  disqualified from possessing or receiving a firearm, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``Safe Homefront Act''.

SEC. 2. AVAILABILITY OF RECORDS FOR NATIONAL INSTANT CRIMINAL 
              BACKGROUND CHECK SYSTEM.

    (a) NICS Records.--Section 101(b) of the NICS Improvement 
Amendments Act of 2007 (34 U.S.C. 40911(b)) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (3); and
            (2) by inserting after paragraph (1), the following new 
        paragraph (2):
            ``(2) Department of defense.--Not later than three business 
        days after the final disposition of a judicial proceeding 
        conducted within the Department of Defense, the Secretary of 
        Defense shall make available to the Attorney General records 
        which are relevant to a determination of whether a member of 
        the Armed Forces involved in such proceeding is disqualified 
        from possessing or receiving a firearm under subsection (g) or 
        (n) of section 922 of title 18, United States Code, for use in 
        background checks performed by the National Instant Criminal 
        Background Check System.''.
    (b) Study and Report on MPO Database.--
            (1) Study.--The Secretary of Defense shall conduct a study 
        on the feasibility of establishing a database of military 
        protective orders issued by military commanders against 
        individuals suspected of having committed an offense of 
        domestic violence under section 928b of title 10, United States 
        Code (article 128b of the Uniform Code of Military Justice). 
        The study shall include an examination of each of the 
        following:
                    (A) The feasibility of creating a database to 
                record, track, and report such military protective 
                orders to the National Instant Criminal Background 
                Check System.
                    (B) The feasibility of establishing a process by 
                which a military judge or magistrate may issue a 
                protective order against an individual suspected of 
                having committed such an offense.
            (2) Report.--Not later then 180 days after the date of the 
        enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to 
        the congressional defense committees a report on the results of 
        the study conducted under paragraph (1).
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