[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1397 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1397

  To require the national instant criminal background check system to 
  notify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement of firearm transfer 
denials by reason of illegal or unlawful presence in the United States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 27, 2019

 Mr. Cline (for himself, Mr. Collins of Georgia, Mr. Buck, Mr. Gaetz, 
Mr. Biggs, Mr. Reschenthaler, Mr. Steube, Mr. Riggleman, Mr. Griffith, 
   Mr. Armstrong, Mr. Meadows, Mr. Gohmert, Ms. Cheney, Mr. Roy, Mr. 
  Stivers, and Mr. Scalise) 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 of firearm transfer 
denials by reason of illegal or unlawful presence in the United States.

    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 ``Notify ICE Act''.

SEC. 2. NOTIFICATION TO U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT OF 
              FIREARM TRANSFER DENIALS BY REASON OF ILLEGAL OR UNLAWFUL 
              PRESENCE IN THE UNITED STATES.

    From time to time, the Attorney General shall transmit to U.S. 
Immigration and Customs Enforcement of the Department of Homeland 
Security a report which identifies each individual with respect to 
whom, during the period covered by the report, the national instant 
criminal background check system established under section 103 of the 
Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act has--
            (1) notified a person licensed under chapter 44 of title 
        18, United States Code, that the individual is ineligible to 
        receive a firearm; and
            (2) provided the notice because the information available 
        to the system indicates that the individual is illegally or 
        unlawfully in the United States.
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