3.0.0 1706 2023-01-15T08:03:20Z 2023-01-15T08:03:20Z Senate S S 2003-10-02 108 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2003-10-02T23:02:38Z NICS Improvement Act of 2003 108 3237 HR 2003-10-22 Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. Identical bill CRS 2003-10-02 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. IntroReferral 2003-10-02 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress S000148 Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY] Charles Schumer D NY E. N H000338 Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] ORRIN HATCH R UT GRANT 2003-10-02 True C000858 Sen. Craig, Larry E. [R-ID] LARRY CRAIG R ID EDWIN 2003-10-02 True K000105 Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA] EDWARD KENNEDY D MA MOORE 2003-10-02 True M000303 Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ] JOHN MCCAIN R AZ SIDNEY 2003-10-02 True C001040 Sen. Chafee, Lincoln [R-RI] LINCOLN CHAFEE R RI D. 2003-10-02 True L000035 Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR] BLANCHE LINCOLN D AR LAMBERT 2003-10-02 True D000563 Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] Richard Durbin D IL J. 2003-10-02 True D000294 Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH] MICHAEL DEWINE R OH 2003-10-28 False F000062 Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA] Dianne Feinstein D CA 2003-10-28 False L000261 Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI] CARL LEVIN D MI MILTON 2003-11-10 False R000122 Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI] John Reed D RI F. 2004-01-27 False Crime and Law Enforcement Administrative procedure Aliens Ammunition Armed Forces and National Security Arrest Auditing Automation Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues Computer networks Confidential communications Congress Congressional reporting requirements Court records Criminal justice information Criminal statistics Department of Justice Drug abuse Drug addiction Due process of law Economics and Public Finance Electronic data interchange Electronic government information Expatriation Families Family violence Federal aid to Indians Federal aid to law enforcement Federal-state relations Firearms Firearms control Fugitives from justice Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Health Identification of criminals Illegal aliens Immigration Intergovernmental fiscal relations Juries Law Medical records Mental illness Military discharges Minorities Pardons Right of privacy Right to counsel Science, Technology, Communications State courts User charges Crime and Law Enforcement 00 2003-10-02 Introduced in Senate 2003-12-24T14:50:40Z NICS Improvement Act of 2003 - Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to require: (1) the head of each Federal agency that has records relating to persons for whom receipt of a firearm would violate Federal or State law to provide that information to the Attorney General for inclusion in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS); (2) the agency, upon being made aware that the basis under which a record was made available no longer applies, to correct the record and notify the Attorney General; and (3) the Department of Homeland Security to make available to the Attorney General records relevant to a determination that a person is disqualified from possessing or receiving a firearm and information about a change in such person's status for removal from NICS, where appropriate.

Directs the Attorney General to make grants to: (1) States and Indian tribal governments to establish or upgrade information and identification technologies for firearms eligibility determinations; and (2) States for use by the State court system to improve the automation and transmittal to Federal and State record repositories of criminal history dispositions, records relevant to determining whether a person has been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence, court orders, and mental health adjudications or commitments.

Requires: (1) the Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics to study and evaluate NICS operations and to report annually to Congress and to specified States regarding best practices; and (2) the Comptroller General to conduct an audit of the expenditure of all funds appropriated for criminal records improvement to determine how the funds were expended.

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