[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 355 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 355

  To require the national instant criminal background check system to 
notify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the relevant State 
 and local law enforcement agencies whenever the information available 
 to the system indicates that a person illegally or unlawfully in the 
         United States may be attempting to receive a firearm.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 19, 2021

  Mr. Steube introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require the national instant criminal background check system to 
notify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the relevant State 
 and local law enforcement agencies whenever the information available 
 to the system indicates that a person illegally or unlawfully in the 
         United States may be attempting to receive a firearm.

    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 ``Illegal Alien NICS Alert Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT THAT NICS NOTIFY ICE AND STATE AND LOCAL LAW 
              ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES OF ATTEMPTED RECEIPT OF FIREARM BY 
              PERSON ILLEGALLY OR UNLAWFULLY IN THE UNITED STATES.

    Section 103(e) of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (34 
U.S.C. 40901(e)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) Requirement to notify ice and state and local law 
        enforcement agencies of attempted receipt of firearm by person 
        illegally or unlawfully in the united states.--The Attorney 
        General shall ensure that, whenever the information available 
        to the system established under this section indicates that a 
        prospective firearm transferee is illegally or unlawfully in 
        the United States, the system shall transmit to the Immigration 
        and Customs Enforcement Agency and to relevant State and local 
        law enforcement agencies a notice that the person may have 
        attempted to receive a firearm in violation of section 
        922(g)(5) of title 18, United States Code, and shall include 
        with the notice all relevant information possessed by the 
        system.''.
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