To permit access to certain information in the Firearms Trace System database.

Amends the Science, State, Justice, Commerce, and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 2006 to repeal restrictions on disclosure of the content of the Firearms Trace System database.

Directs the Attorney General to provide public access to the Crime Gun Trace Report from the Youth Crime Gun Interdiction Initiative, which is generated using information in such System.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5033 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5033

 To permit access to certain information in the Firearms Trace System 
                               database.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 28, 2006

 Mr. Rothman introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To permit access to certain information in the Firearms Trace System 
                               database.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FIREARMS TRACE SYSTEM.

    (a) In General.--The Science, State, Justice, Commerce, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law 109-108; 119 Stat. 2295) 
is amended in title I, under the heading ``Bureau of alcohol, tobacco, 
firearms and explosives'', by striking ``: Provided further, That no 
funds appropriated under this or any other Act with respect to any 
fiscal year may be used to disclose part or all of the contents of the 
Firearms Trace System database'' and all that follows through ``section 
921(a)(10) of such title):''.
    (b) Access to Information.--The Attorney General shall provide 
public access to the Crime Gun Trace Report (both nationally and for 
individual cities) from the Youth Crime Gun Interdiction Initiative, 
which is generated using information in the Firearms Trace System 
database maintained by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and 
Explosives.
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