21st Century NICS Act
This bill modifies procedures for conducting firearms-related background checks through the national instant criminal background check system (NICS).
Specifically, it permits the NICS to query an additional database—the National Data Exchange—as part of a firearm-related background check.
To improve the national instant criminal background check system in 
  order to search the National Data Exchange database when conducting 
                      criminal background checks.

    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 ``21st Century NICS Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT THAT THE NICS SYSTEM SEARCH THE NATIONAL DATA 
              EXCHANGE DATABASE IN CONDUCTING BACKGROUND CHECKS.

    Section 103(e)(1) of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (34 
U.S.C. 40901(e)(1)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(L) Search of national data exchange database.--
                The system established under this section may search 
                the database of the National Data Exchange in 
                conducting a background check under this section.''.
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21st Century NICS Act
To improve the national instant criminal background check system in order to search the National Data Exchange database when conducting criminal background checks.
21st Century NICS Act
Rep. Rice, Tom