To prohibit the Commissioner of Social Security from furnishing the name of any individual in a report to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System unless a Federal court has determined the individual to be mentally defective.

This bill prohibits the Social Security Administration from providing to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) the name of any individual entitled to benefits, including any individual whose benefits are paid to a representative payee, unless a federal court has determined the individual to be mentally defective. (Current law prohibits the sale or transfer of a firearm to and the purchase or possession of a firearm by a person who has been adjudicated as a mental defective or committed to a mental institution.)

[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3126 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3126

  To prohibit the Commissioner of Social Security from furnishing the 
  name of any individual in a report to the National Instant Criminal 
   Background Check System unless a Federal court has determined the 
                  individual to be mentally defective.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 21, 2015

 Mr. Abraham (for himself, Mr. Benishek, and Mr. Jones) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit the Commissioner of Social Security from furnishing the 
  name of any individual in a report to the National Instant Criminal 
   Background Check System unless a Federal court has determined the 
                  individual to be mentally defective.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That upon a request by 
the Attorney General to the Commissioner of Social Security to furnish 
information pursuant to section 103(e)(1) of the Brady Handgun Violence 
Prevention Act, the Commissioner of Social Security may not furnish the 
name of any individual entitled to benefits under title II of the 
Social Security Act, including any individual whose benefits are paid 
to a representative payee under section 205(j) of such Act, unless a 
Federal court has determined the individual to be mentally defective.
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