21st Century NICS Act

Bill: 117-hr-1518
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Rice, Tom [R-SC-7]
Introduced: 2021-03-02
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal justice information and records

Firearms and explosives

Government information and archives
Latest action: action_date: 2021-05-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-03-02
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>21st Century NICS Act</b></p> <p>This bill modifies procedures for conducting firearms-related background checks through the national instant criminal background check system (NICS). </p> <p>Specifically, it permits the NICS to query an additional database&#8212;the National Data Exchange&#8212;as part of a firearm-related background check.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1518 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 2, 2021 Mr. Rice of South Carolina (for himself, Ms. Mace , Mr. Vicente Gonzalez of Texas , and Mr. Kind ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To improve the national instant criminal background check system in order to search the National Data Exchange database when conducting criminal background checks.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the 21st Century NICS Act . 2. Requirement that the NICS system search the National Data Exchange database in conducting background checks Section 103(e)(1) of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act ( 34 U.S.C. 40901(e)(1) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (L) Search of National Data Exchange database The system established under this section may search the database of the National Data Exchange in conducting a background check under this section. .