Trafficking Reduction And Criminal Enforcement (TRACE) Act

Summary

Trafficking Reduction and Criminal Enforcement (TRACE) Act Directs the Attorney General to promulgate regulations that require each firearm manufactured in the United States to be marked with a serial number that is located inside the firearm's receiver or that is visible only in infrared light, in addition to the serial number mark otherwise required. Amends the federal criminal code to: (1) prohibit national instant criminal background check system records about a prospective firearm transferee from being destroyed until after 180 days after the system assigns and provides a firearms licensee with a unique identification number for the transfer, and (2) repeal provisions prohibiting appropriated funds from being used for any system that does not require the destruction of any identifying information submitted for a transferee within 24 hours after the system advises a licensee that the transferee's receipt of a firearm is not prohibited. Requires each licensed firearms dealer to conduct a physical check of its firearms business inventory. Amends the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012, to repeal prohibitions against using appropriated funds to: (1) promulgate or implement any rule requiring a physical inventory of any firearms business; or (2) disclose contents of the Firearms Trace System database maintained by the National Trace Center of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives or any information required to be kept by firearms licensees except as specified in that Act.

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Timeline

1. 29 July 2015

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 29 July 2015

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 29 July 2015

   Introduced

   Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

   Source: IntroReferral

4. 28 September 2015

   Referred

   Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.

   Source: Committee

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Versions

• Introduced in House · 29 July 2015 · Official file

Documents

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• Introduced in House (text)

  Introduced in House · EN · 29 July 2015

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• Introduced in House (PDF)

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 29 July 2015

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Sponsors

• Rep. Quigley, Mike [D-IL-5] · D · Sponsor
• Tony Cárdenas · D · Sponsor
• Barbara Lee · D · Sponsor
• Earl Blumenauer · D · Sponsor
• David Cicilline · D · Sponsor
• Rep. Pocan, Mark [D-WI-2] · D · Sponsor
• DAVID PRICE · D · Sponsor
• James McGovern · D · Sponsor
• Raúl Grijalva · D · Sponsor
• ALCEE HASTINGS · D · Cosponsor
• Theodore Deutch · D · Cosponsor
• Niki Tsongas · D · Cosponsor
• Rep. DeSaulnier, Mark [D-CA-10] · D · Cosponsor
• Rep. Keating, William R. [D-MA-9] · D · Cosponsor
• Sen. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA] · D · Cosponsor
• Juan Vargas · D · Cosponsor
• · hsju00 · Standing

Related records

• related to → Tiahrt Restrictions Repeal Act