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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 1041 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend title 38, United States Code, to prohibit the Secretary of Veterans |
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| 6 | 6 | | Affairs from transmitting certain information to the Department of Jus- |
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| 7 | 7 | | tice for use by the national instant criminal background check system. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 9 | 9 | | FEBRUARY6, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mr. B |
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| 11 | 11 | | OST(for himself, Mr. LUTTRELL, Mr. BERGMAN, Mrs. BIGGSof South |
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| 12 | 12 | | Carolina, Mr. F |
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| 13 | 13 | | INSTAD, Mr. LAHOOD, Mr. FULCHER, Mr. EDWARDS, Mr. |
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| 15 | 15 | | EBSTERof Florida, Mr. BACON, Mr. ZINKE, Mr. GRAVES, Mr. |
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| 17 | 17 | | EWHOUSE, Ms. MACE, Ms. TENNEY, Mr. ALFORD, Mr. VANORDEN, |
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| 19 | 19 | | UDSON, Mr. GUTHRIE, Mr. ROY, Mrs. CAMMACK, Mr. KELLYof |
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| 20 | 20 | | Pennsylvania, Mr. M |
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| 21 | 21 | | OOLENAAR, Mr. FEENSTRA, Mr. BILIRAKIS, Mr. |
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| 23 | 23 | | ARRISof Maryland, Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS, Mr. BABIN, Mr. BAIRD, Mr. |
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| 25 | 25 | | OOREof Alabama, Mr. OBERNOLTE, Mr. AMODEIof Nevada, Mr. |
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| 27 | 27 | | RENSHAW, Mr. COLLINS, Mr. HAMADEHof Arizona, Mr. GROTHMAN, |
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| 28 | 28 | | Mr. J |
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| 29 | 29 | | ACKSONof Texas, Mr. STAUBER, Mr. SMITHof Nebraska, Mr. |
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| 31 | 31 | | ULLI, and Mr. YAKYM) introduced the following bill; which was referred |
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| 32 | 32 | | to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs |
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| 33 | 33 | | A BILL |
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| 34 | 34 | | To amend title 38, United States Code, to prohibit the Sec- |
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| 35 | 35 | | retary of Veterans Affairs from transmitting certain in- |
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| 36 | 36 | | formation to the Department of Justice for use by the |
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| 37 | 37 | | national instant criminal background check system. |
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| 38 | 38 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 39 | 39 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 42 | 42 | | •HR 1041 IH |
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| 43 | 43 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1 |
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| 44 | 44 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Veterans 2nd Amend-2 |
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| 45 | 45 | | ment Protection Act’’. 3 |
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| 46 | 46 | | SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON SECRETARY OF VETERANS AF-4 |
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| 47 | 47 | | FAIRS TRANSMITTAL OF CERTAIN INFORMA-5 |
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| 48 | 48 | | TION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FOR 6 |
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| 49 | 49 | | USE BY THE NATIONAL INSTANT CRIMINAL 7 |
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| 50 | 50 | | BACKGROUND CHECK SYSTEM. 8 |
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| 51 | 51 | | (a) I |
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| 52 | 52 | | NGENERAL.—Chapter 55 of title 38, United 9 |
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| 53 | 53 | | States Code, is amended by inserting after section 5501A 10 |
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| 54 | 54 | | the following new section: 11 |
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| 55 | 55 | | ‘‘§ 5501B. Prohibition on transmittal of certain infor-12 |
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| 56 | 56 | | mation to the Department of Justice for 13 |
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| 57 | 57 | | use by the national instant criminal back-14 |
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| 58 | 58 | | ground check system 15 |
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| 59 | 59 | | ‘‘The Secretary may not transmit to any entity in the 16 |
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| 60 | 60 | | Department of Justice, for use by the national instant 17 |
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| 61 | 61 | | criminal background check system established under sec-18 |
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| 62 | 62 | | tion 103 of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, 19 |
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| 63 | 63 | | personally identifiable information of a beneficiary, solely 20 |
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| 64 | 64 | | on the basis of a determination by the Secretary to pay 21 |
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| 65 | 65 | | benefits to a fiduciary for the use and benefit of the bene-22 |
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| 66 | 66 | | ficiary under section 5502 of this title, without the order 23 |
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| 67 | 67 | | or finding of a judge, magistrate, or other judicial author-24 |
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| 68 | 68 | | ity of competent jurisdiction that such beneficiary is a 25 |
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| 69 | 69 | | danger to themselves or others.’’. 26 |
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| 72 | 72 | | •HR 1041 IH |
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| 73 | 73 | | (b) CLERICALAMENDMENT.—The table of sections 1 |
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| 74 | 74 | | at the beginning of chapter 55 of such title is amended 2 |
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| 75 | 75 | | by inserting after the item relating to section 5501A the 3 |
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| 76 | 76 | | following new item: 4 |
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| 77 | 77 | | ‘‘5501B. Prohibition on transmittal of certain information to the Department |
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| 78 | 78 | | of Justice for use by the national instant criminal background |
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| 79 | 79 | | check system.’’. |
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