To prohibit the Commissioner of Social Security from furnishing the name of any individual in a report to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System unless a Federal court has determined the individual to be mentally defective.

Bill: 114-hr-3126
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Abraham, Ralph Lee [R-LA-5]
Introduced: 2015-07-21
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal justice information and records

Disability assistance

Firearms and explosives

Mental health

Social security and elderly assistance
Latest action: action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-07-21
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p> This bill prohibits the Social Security Administration from providing to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) the name of any individual entitled to benefits, including any individual whose benefits are paid to a representative payee, unless a federal court has determined the individual to be mentally defective. (Current law prohibits the sale or transfer of a firearm to and the purchase or possession of a firearm by a person who has been adjudicated as a mental defective or committed to a mental institution.)<br /> </p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3126 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 21, 2015 Mr. Abraham (for himself, Mr. Benishek , and Mr. Jones ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means A BILL To prohibit the Commissioner of Social Security from furnishing the name of any individual in a report to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System unless a Federal court has determined the individual to be mentally defective.

That upon a request by the Attorney General to the Commissioner of Social Security to furnish information pursuant to section 103(e)(1) of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, the Commissioner of Social Security may not furnish the name of any individual entitled to benefits under title II of the Social Security Act, including any individual whose benefits are paid to a representative payee under section 205(j) of such Act, unless a Federal court has determined the individual to be mentally defective.