[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1261 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1261

  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 information contained in 
 the system indicates that an alien who is illegally or unlawfully in 
           the United States attempted to receive a firearm.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 21, 2021

Mr. Cotton (for himself, Mrs. Blackburn, Ms. Ernst, Mr. Hawley, and Mr. 
    Tillis) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               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 information contained in 
 the system indicates that an alien who is illegally or unlawfully in 
           the United States attempted 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. REQUIRED NOTIFICATION BY NICS TO ICE AND STATE AND LOCAL LAW 
              ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES OF ATTEMPTED RECEIPT OF FIREARM BY 
              ALIEN WHO IS 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) Notification to ice and state and local law 
        enforcement agencies of attempted receipt of firearm by person 
        illegally or unlawfully in the united states.--Whenever 
        information contained in the system established under this 
        section indicates that a prospective firearm transferee is 
        illegally or unlawfully in the United States, the system shall 
        automatically notify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement 
        and relevant State and local law enforcement agencies that an 
        alien may have attempted to receive a firearm in violation of 
        section 922(g)(5)(A) of title 18, United States Code, and 
        include all relevant information contained in the system.''.
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