116 HR 2319 IH: 21st Century NICS Act U.S. House of Representatives 2019-04-12 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

I116th CONGRESS1st SessionH. R. 2319IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESApril 12, 2019Mr. Rice of South Carolina (for himself, Mr. Hudson, Mr. Diaz-Balart, Mr. Woodall, Mr. Conaway, Mr. Moolenaar, Mrs. Lesko, Mr. Stewart, Mr. Yoho, Mr. Marchant, Mr. Huizenga, Mr. Zeldin, Mr. Amodei, Mr. Gonzalez of Texas, and Ms. Torres Small of New Mexico) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the JudiciaryA BILLTo improve the national instant criminal background check system in order to search the National Data Exchange database when conducting criminal background checks.

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Short title

This Act may be cited as the 21st Century NICS Act.

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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..