Firearms Owners Against Crime
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Our position that background checks are ineffective at stopping criminals remains unchanged, however Rep. Rice is a strong supporter of the 2nd Amendment, and has spoken in the past about improving the background check system to the advantage of law abiding gun owners. We will watch until text becomes available.
Title: 21st Century NICS Act
Subject: Crime and law enforcement
Description: To improve the national instant criminal background check system in order to search the National Data Exchange database when conducting criminal background checks.
Session: 117th Congress
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: May 18, 2021
Link: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1518/all-info
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50 sponsors: Tom Rice (R); Nancy Mace (R); Vicente Gonzalez (D); Ron Kind (D); William Timmons (R); Steve Cohen (D); Anthony Gonzalez (R); Peter Meijer (R); Bob Gibbs (R); John Rutherford (R); Mike D. Rogers (R); Don Bacon (R); Garland Barr (R); Glenn Grothman (R); Garret Graves (R); Claudia Tenney (R); Nicole Malliotakis (R); Debbie Lesko (R); French Hill (R); Joe Wilson (R); John Moolenaar (R); Austin Scott (R); Dan Crenshaw (R); Richard Hudson (R); Carlos Gimenez (R); Pete Stauber (R); Conor Lamb (D); Gus Bilirakis (R); Mike Gallagher (R); Mario Diaz-Balart (R); Tim Walberg (R); Young Kim (R); Drew Ferguson (R); Steve Stivers (R); Blake Moore (R); Matthew Cartwright (D); John Katko (R); Henry Cuellar (D); Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R); David Price (D); Fred Upton (R); Ann Wagner (R); Robert Wittman (R); Stephanie Bice (R); Bryan Steil (R); Tracey Mann (R); Glenn Thompson (R); Cliff Bentz (R); Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R); Adrian Smith (R)
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| House | May 18 2021 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. |
| House | Mar 2 2021 | Introduced in House |
| House | Mar 2 2021 | Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. |
| Type | Date | Federal Link | Text |
| Introduced | Apr 19 2021 | federal bill text | bill text |
| Title | Description | Date | State Link | Text | Adopted |
| There are no amendments to this bill at this time | |||||
Chamber: H
Committee Name: Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
There have not been any votes on this bill