[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 202 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 202

To amend the Social Security Act relating to the use of determinations 
                       made by the Commissioner.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 24, 2017

Mr. Crapo (for himself, Mr. Paul, Mr. Moran, Mr. Heller, Mr. Hatch, Mr. 
  Inhofe, Mr. Daines, and Mr. Roberts) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Social Security Act relating to the use of determinations 
                       made by the Commissioner.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Social Security Beneficiary 2nd 
Amendment Rights Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. USE OF DETERMINATIONS MADE BY THE COMMISSIONER.

    (a) Title II.--Section 205(j) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
405(j)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(11) No determination by the Commissioner of Social Security with 
respect to an individual, including a determination that benefits under 
this title to which such individual is entitled shall be paid to a 
representative payee, shall be considered to be a determination that 
the individual has been adjudicated as a mental defective for purposes 
of subsections (d)(4) and (g)(4) of section 922 of title 18, United 
States Code.''.
    (b) Title XVI.--Section 1631(a)(2) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 
1383(a)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(J) No determination by the Commissioner of Social Security with 
respect to an individual, including a determination that benefits under 
this title to which such individual is entitled shall be paid to a 
representative payee, shall be considered to be a determination that 
the individual has been adjudicated as a mental defective for purposes 
of subsections (d)(4) and (g)(4) of section 922 of title 18, United 
States Code.''.
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