NICS Review Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-821
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2019-01-28
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal justice information and records

Firearms and explosives

Law enforcement administration and funding

Licensing and registrations

Retail and wholesale trades
Latest action: action_date: 2019-03-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-01-28
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>NICS Review Act of 2019</b></p> <p>This bill revises the amount of time that the national instant criminal background check system retains certain information about an approved firearm transaction.</p> <p>Currently, identifying information about an approved firearm purchaser must be destroyed within 24 hours. This bill requires identifying information about an approved firearm purchaser to be retained for at least 90 days before it can be destroyed.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 821 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 28, 2019 Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To require records of the national instant criminal background check system to be retained for at least 90 days.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the NICS Review Act of 2019 . 2. Requirement that NICS records be retained for at least 90 days Section 511 of division B of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012 ( 34 U.S.C. 40901 note; Public Law 112–55 ; 125 Stat. 632) is amended by striking no more than 24 hours and inserting no fewer than 90 days .