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House Bill 355
117th Congress(2021-2022)
Illegal Alien NICS Alert Act
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Introduced in House on Jan 19, 2021
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H. R. 355 (Introduced-in-House)


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.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 19, 2021

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

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.”.